Faculty Experts
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Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150
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Areas of expertise: Black literature, black history, black poetry |
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| Biography: Leonard A. Slade Jr. is a professor of African Studies and serves as the director of the Doctor of Arts in Humanistic Studies Program and director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. Slade, a Collins Fellow, is the editor of Black Essays (1995), a collection of outstanding short pieces by African American critics and scholars, and has been published in Essence, U.S. News and World Report, Ebony, The American Poetry Review, and other publications. Slade is the author of 16 books, including a dozen books of poetry, including The Beauty of Blackness (1989), and Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer (1988). His research interests include black American poetry, black essays, George Moses Horton (first black poet of the South), and l9th century American literature, particularly author Herman Melville. |
