Douglas Taylor

Douglas Taylor is Assistant Professor of Multiethnic Literature at Cal State East Bay, specializing in African American Literature. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal State East Bay, Dr. Taylor served on the English Department faculty at Howard University and The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Taylor’s current research interests include African American Autobiography, the Black Arts Movement, Race and Masculinity, Critical Theory, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Along with William L. Andrews, he is the co-editor of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook. He has published articles in a number of academic journals and is currently at work on a book titled Outlaws, Nationalists, and Revolutionaries: Race and Masculinity in Black Power Autobiography (forthcoming from U Press of Mississippi).