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Current Member

Joshua B Bennett

Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of study

African American Literature

Home institution

MIT
During my time at IAS, I will be writing a book on "the art of opacity" in African American literature and life.

Visits

Member
School of Historical Studies
Fall

Degrees

Princeton University
Ph.D.
2016
University of Warwick
M.A.
2011
University of Pennsylvania
B.A.
2010

Honors

2021
Guggenheim Fellowship
2021
Whiting Award for Nonfiction
2021
Whiting Award for Poetry
2021
William Sanders Scarborough Prize
2017
NEA Fellowship
2015
National Poetry Series

Appointments

MIT
2023
Distinguished Chair of the Humanities and Professor of Literature