W. T. LHAMON, Jr., Ph.D. Indiana (1973), University Distinguished Teaching Professor since 1991 and George M. Harper Professor of English since 2000. Dr. Lhamon specializes in the intersections of U.S. literature, folklore, and popular culture. His recent research has been on the construction of race and class alliances in Atlantic popular theatre during the early nineteenth century. Harvard University Press has published his last three books: Raising Cain (1998), Deliberate Speed (2002), and Jump Jim Crow (2003). His next project is a book, called Secret Histories, about cultural transmission in public spheres of the Atlantic world--what it is, how it happens, and what difference it makes. Among other research fellowships, Lhamon has held National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships in 1992-93 and 1998-99; and research fellowships from the Houghton Library, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. In 2002, the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English gave Lhamon its Outstanding Teaching Award.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture, Harvard University Press, Fall 2003.
• Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop, Harvard UP, 1998.
• Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American Fifties, 1990; rpt, with new preface, Harvard University Press, 2002.
• American Humor: A Study of the American Character (editor and introduction), Florida State UP, 1985.
• Afterword to Wesley Brown, Darktown Strutters (a novel), University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
• "From Break and Enter to Breakaway," Boundary 2, 1975.
• The Rhetoric of Conflict (co-editor), Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.

Selected Articles

• "Optic Black: Naturalizing the Refusal to Fit" in Black Cultural Traffic, ed. Harry Elam, Forthcoming, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
• "Ebry Time I Turn Around I Jump Jim Crow: Cycles of Minstrel Transgression from Cool White to Vanilla Ice," in Behind the Blackface Mask, eds. Anna Bean and James Hatch, Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1996.
• "They All Juggled Milk Bottles." in A Miles Davis Reader, ed. Bill Kirchner, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.