“The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on American Cinema”

WHITNEY LECTURE OF THE WEEK

Rich Blint is a scholar, writer, and curator. He is Assistant Professor of Literature in the Department of Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. He is co-editor (with Douglas Field) of a special issue of African American Review on James Baldwin (2014), and wrote the introduction and notes for the e-book Baldwin For Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for a Time of Sorrow and Struggle (Beacon Press 2016). Upcoming books include A Radical Interiority: James Baldwin and the Personified Self in Modern American Culture, and A Queer Spirit: Incidents in the Life of the Americas. He is also editor of the forthcoming Cambridge African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990. His writing has appeared in Anthropology Now, African American Review, The James Baldwin Review, The Brooklyn Rail, sx visualities. Curatorial projects include Renee Cox: Revisiting The Queen Nanny of the Maroons Series at Columbia (2016), The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on Film at The Film Society of Lincoln Center (2015), and The First Sweet Music at the John and June Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center (2014). He has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship.

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