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Riché Richardson

Hometown: Montgomery, Alabama Lives in: Ithaca, New York

Contact Information

  • Email: rdr83@cornell.edu

Address:

    • 310 Triphammer Road
      Ithaca, New York 14850
      United States
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email

 

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About Riché Richardson

Genres: Nonfiction, Inspirational, Journalism, Autobiography; cultural studies

Available for: Remote

Bio: Riché Richardson was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and is professor of African American literature in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. She graduated from Spelman College with a major in English and minors in philosophy and women’s studies, and received her doctorate in American Literature from the English Department at Duke University. She taught at the University of California, Davis from 1998-2008. Her Op-Eds have appeared in the New York Times, Public …Read More Books and Huff Post and in interviews on NBC’s The Today Show and Nightly News, CNN, and Al Jazeera’s Newshour. In 2021, Richardson was selected as #8 on Dismantle magazine’s list of “8 Thinkers Who Influenced (How We Understand) Black History.” She has produced over 40 essays and her books include Black Masculinity and the U.S. South, and Emancipation’s Daughters, the 2022 recipient of the C. Hugh Holman Book Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. She is also an artist.

Works: 2021 Emancipation’s Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke University Press).
2007 Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (University of Georgia Press).
Also editor of New Southern …Read More Studies Series, University of Georgia Press, 2018-22; co-editor 2005-present

Awards: C. Hugh Holman Book Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2022, for Emancipation’s Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke University Press)
Interdisciplinary Monograph Writing Group Awards, Society for the …Read More Humanities at Cornell University, 2022
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (University of Georgia Press). “Outstanding Academic Titles, 2008,” Choice Books
Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship. Op-Ed Project. Cornell University, 2016
Educator of the Year Award, 2016. St. Jude Alumni and Friends, Inc., Montgomery, AL
U.S. Department of State Federal Assistance Award for visit to France as a “Cultural Envoy” in Speaker Series. The U.S. Embassy in France. January 10-17, 2009. Paris, France

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