He graduated summa cum laude in history in 1973 and went off to Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon Fellowship. At Cambridge, he met the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, who steered him toward the study of African-American literature. Six years later, when he received his Ph.D. in English from Cambridge -- his dissertation was on the critical reception of black literature during the Enlightenment -- Yale made him an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the English department and the Afro-American studies program.
Title: The history and theory of Afro-American literary criticism, 1773-1831: the arts, aesthetic theory, and the nature of the African.
Other Entries: University of Cambridge. Faculty of English.
Published: University of Cambridge : Ph.D. Dissertation.
Notes: 2 vols. Date approved: 24 October 1978. BLDSC number: D25994/79.
Format: Archival/Manuscript Material
Permanent URL for this record: http://hooke.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/bib_seek.cgi?cat=man&bib=8608
Location: UL: Order in Manuscripts Room
(Not borrowable)
Classmark: PhD.10644-