Courtney R. Baker
Areas of Expertise
- Black Studies
- Film Studies
- Visual Studies
- African American Literature
- Critical Theory
Book
Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death.New Black Studies series. University of Illinois Press. September 2015. | Paperback published August 2017.
Manuscript-in-progress
Tyranny of Realism: Twenty-First Century Blackness and the Ends of Cinema
Education
September 2008
Ph.D., Program in Literature, Duke University
September 2008
Certificate, African & African American Studies, Duke University
June 1996
B.A., cum laude, Women’s Studies, Harvard University
Academic Positions
2019–Present (on leave 2019–2020)
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California-Riverside
2019–2020
Visiting Scholar, James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University
2017–2019
Chair and Co-Founder, Black Studies, Occidental College
2016–2019
Associate Professor, American Studies, Occidental College
2015–2016
Director, Africana Studies, Connecticut College
2015
Co-Director, Africana Studies, Connecticut College
2014–2016
Associate Professor, Department of English, Connecticut College
2008–2014
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Connecticut College
2006–2008
Instructor, Department of English, Connecticut College
2005–2006
Visiting Instructor, Department of English, Connecticut College
2004–2005
Visiting Instructor/Dissertation Fellow, English Department, Denison University
Awards and Honors
2019–2020
Visiting Scholar, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University
2018
Faculty Enrichment Grant, Occidental College
2018
Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (alternate)
2017
Faculty Enrichment Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning (additional funds supplied by the President and Dean of Faculty), Occidental College
2013
President’s Fund Research Matters Award, Connecticut College
2011
Fellow, Center for the Critical Study of Race & Ethnicity, Connecticut College (declined)
2010–2011
Sherman Fairchild Fellow, Connecticut College
2004–2005
Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, Denison University