Michelle M. Wright is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies, where she teaches literature, culture, and theory courses on blackness, queerness, and gender in the black and African Diaspora. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora(Duke University Press, 2004). Prof. Wright has lectured extensively in both Europe and the US, including Humboldt University in Berlin, the University of Paris, the University of Rome, as well as Yale, Brown, and Cornell universities on theories of how “blackness” as both an individual and group identity achieves different meanings depending on gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and national origin.
