About Gordon Thompson
For the past twelve years, Professor Thompson has been teaching African American and American Literature in the CCNY English Department. He is the author of articles on Zora Neale Hurston and Melvin Tolson in American Literature and Callaloo, respectively. He is a contributing editor to the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History and has authored several reviews for the American Book Review. He has spoken on Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Charles Chesnutt, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
He teaches courses on New York City in poetry and prose and The Harlem Renaissance. He is also a faculty associate at IRADAC-The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora and the Caribbean-and has been in continuous service to the Langston Hughes Festival Committee since 1990.
He has taught at the Graduate Center and the Center for Worker Education among other locations around the nation.
Publications
Articles:
"Projecting Gender: Personification in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston" in American Literature: (Dec. 1994).
"Ambiguity in Melvin Tolson's Harlem Gallery," in Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters: (Winter l986).
Reviews:
"The Multifarious Dimensions of African American Thought" review of The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865, by Dickson D. Bruce Jr. (U P Virginia: 2001) in The American Book Review, (November/December 2002; Vol. 24, 1).
"Forgotten Forbears Resurrected" review of Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940, edited by James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian (1996) in The American Book Review (July - August 1998; Vol. 19, 5).
"An Alignment of Fragments," review of Honorable Amendments by Michael Harper in The American Book Review (August-Sept., 1996; vol. 17, 6).
Encyclopedia Entries:
1"Melvin Tolson" in Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (New York : Macmillan, 1995).
"Charles Chesnutt" in Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (New York : Macmillan, 1995).
Last Updated: 10/21/09
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