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David Wright

Professor, Department of English

Research Interests

African-American Literature, Contemporary American Literature, Fiction

Education

MFA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Awards and Honors

LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2021)

Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the New York Public Library (2021-22)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, English
Professor, Center for African Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Highlighted Publications

Wright, D. (2022). Black Cloud Rising: A Novel. Grove Atlantic.

Wright, D., & Bouchard, L. (2016). Away Running. Orca Book Publishers.

Wright, D. (2020). "The Sand Banks, 1861". The New Yorker.

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Recent Publications

Wright Faladé, D. (2023). Sunny. In B. A. Kaplan (Ed.), Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350233164.ch-25

Wright, D. (2022). Black Cloud Rising: A Novel. Grove Atlantic.

Wright, D. (2020). "The Sand Banks, 1861". The New Yorker.

Wright, D., & Bouchard, L. (2016). Away Running. Orca Book Publishers.

Wright, D. (2014). Writing Race in America. Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Writing-Race-in-America/145111

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