Fellow Spotlight: Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Robert F. Reid-Pharr is mapping the contradictions that underwrote the celebrity of writer and activist James Baldwin.
Robert F. Reid-Pharr is Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality as well as African and African American Studies at Harvard University. In his Academy project, about the American author and activist James Baldwin (1924-1987), Reid-Pharr is concerned less with revealing Baldwin’s psychology than with mapping the contradictions that underwrote his celebrity.
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