Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Author
1943 –
Who is Houston A. Baker, Jr.?
Houston Alfred Baker Jr. is an American scholar specializing in African-American literature and currently serving as a Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University in the English department.
Baker served as president of the Modern Language Association, editor of the journal American Literature, and has authored several books, including The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, and Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing. Baker was included in the 2006 textbook Fifty Key Literary Theorists, by Richard J. Lane.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 1943
Louisville - Also known as
- Houston Baker Jr.
- Houston A. Baker Jr.
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Victorian literature
( - 1968) - Bachelor of Arts, Howard University
English Literature
( - 1965)
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- Employment
- Vanderbilt University
- Lived in
- Louisville
(1943/03/22 - ) - Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area
(1974 - )
- Louisville
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on July 23, 2013
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