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Mar 9, 2024 · Henry Louis Gates, Jr., American literary critic and scholar known for his pioneering theories of African and African American literature. Learn more about Gates’s life and career, including his various books as well as his TV documentary series, notably Finding Your Roots.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored twenty-one books and created ...
Apr 13, 2021 · April 13, 20211:44 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. 37-Minute Listen. Playlist. When he was 12, Gates made a bargain with Jesus in an attempt to save his mother's life. He talks about how...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award–winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has published numerous books and produced and ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor. Education: B.A., Yale University (1973) M.A., University of Cambridge (1974) Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1979) Interests: African and African-American Literature; Cultural Theory. Selected Works:
Harvard professor and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is this year’s Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities. He spoke recently with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the growth of African American studies in this country.
Feb 19, 2022 · The New Yorker Interview. How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon. The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told. By David...
