C. Riley Snorton

C. Riley Snorton is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, where his research and teaching focus on black cultural production and queer and transgender theory. Snorton’s book, Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low, is forthcoming in 2014 from the University of Minnesota Press. He is also a member of the editorial collective of The Feminist Wire.


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Wanting Out

I can remember the first time I met Mark Anthony Neal. I was a graduate student, and he was visiting faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, teaching a class entitled “(Il)Legible Blackness.” The course aimed to familiarize students with recent work in black aesthetic theory and included discussion of a wide range of artists and […]