The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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Phillip Brian Harper

Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis , English ; Chair, Department of English
Ph.D. 1988 (English), M.A. 1986, M.F.A. 1985 (creative writing), Cornell; B.A. 1981 (creative writing/literature), Michiagan.

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Areas of Research/Interest: Modern and contemporary U.S. literary and cultural studies; African-American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies

External Affiliations: Member, PMLA Advisory Committee, Modern Language Association, 1999-2002; Member, Profession Advisory Committee, Modern Language Association, 1999-2000; Editorial boards for Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies; Social Text; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism; American Studies Association.

Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship; Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Select Publications:
Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations. New York: NYU Press. 1999.
Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity. New York: Oxford UP. 1996.
Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture. New York: Oxford UP. 1994.

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