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Education

B.A., 2000, Louisiana State University
M.A., 2002, University of Kentucky
Ph.D., 2006, University of Kentucky

Academic Summary

Terrence T. Tucker is a professor of African American literature and department chair in the Department of English at the University of 蜜桃导航. He is the author of Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock (University Press of Florida, 2018). He has also published essays on topics ranging from race and pedagogy to Ernest Gaines to African-American superheroes and in journals from Pedagogy, Southern Literary Journal, and College Language Association Journal. He is finishing work on his second book project, The Rise of the Afristocracy: Portraits of the Black Elite in Contemporary African American Literature contracted with University Press of Florida. This book traces the representation of the black elite in African-American literature from the lives of free blacks during slavery to rising black middle and upper classes in the twenty-first century. 

Select Publications

Books

• Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. 

Articles and Book Chapters

• Tucker, Terrence and Shelby Crosby. "Afrofuturism: Past, Present, and Beyond." Special issue of CLA Journal 65.1. (March 2022). 
• "'Where I Come From It's Like This' The African American Lens and the Critical Role of the Local South in Teaching Social Justice." Special Issue on Southern Studies, Pedagogy, and Activism, South: A Scholarly Journal 50.2 (Spring 2019)" 212-224. 
• "In the Shadow of Cosby: Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills and the Postintegration Black Elite." Gloria Naylor's Fiction: Contemporary Explorations of Class and Capitalism. Eds. Sharon A. Lewis and Ama S. Wattley. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017: 77-100.
• "Humor, Fantasy, and Myth: Dramatic Marginalized Voices and Mississippi's America" A Literary History of Mississippi. Ed. Lorie Watkins. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2017: 211-227. 
• "Cackling Through the Country: Beth Henley and The South's' America." Writing the Crooked Letter State: A History of Mississippi's Literature.
• "Blackness We Can Believe In: Authentic Blackness and the Evolution of Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks" Post-Soul Satire: An Interdisciplinary Critical Overview. 2014.
• "Confessions of a Bakke Baby: Race, Academia, and the 'Joshua Generation.'" Overcoming Adversity in Academia: Stories From Generation X Faculty. 2014.
• "Workingman's Blues: The Blues as Working-Class Music." Blue Collar Pop Culture. 2012.
• "Revolutionary Hustler: Liberatory Violence in Donald Goines's Kenyatta Series." Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines. 2011.
• "(Re)Claiming Legacy in the Post-Civil Rights South in Richard Wright's 'Down by the Riverside' and Ernest Gaines's A Gathering of Old Men." Southern Literary Journal. Spring 2011.
• "American Negroes Revisited: The Intellectual and The Badman in Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones Novels." Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction. 2008.
• "Do You See What I See?: Teaching Race in the Age of ColorBlind America." Teaching Race in the Twenty-first Century: College Teachers Talk About the Fears, Risks, and Rewards. 2008.
• "African-American Superheroes and Comics." With M. Keith Booker. African Americans and Popular Culture. 2008.
• "Teaching Race to Students Who Think the World is Free: Aging and Race as Social Change." Pedagogy. Winter 2006.