Robert Randolph Jr.

Robert Randolph, Jr. is a Lecturer of English and the Director of the Writing Center at North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT). Additionally, he lectures at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in the African American Studies Program. He is a PhD student in the Educational and Cultural Studies program at UNCG and holds a MA in English and African-American Literature from NCAT and two BA degrees in Political Science and African American Studies from the UNCG. His research interests are 20th- and 21st-century African-American literature and cultural production, black masculinity criticism, and contemporary African-American poetry and poetics. His current research project examines the philosophical, political, and literary connections between James Baldwin and President Barack Obama. He is also Book Editor for The Journal of Black Masculinity. You can contact him at [email protected].