Robert Maclean

Department/Affiliation: English; History
Phone: 330-263-1907
Office Address: 219 Kauke
Email: rmaclean@wooster.edu

Degrees

• PhD, University of Michigan 2011
• MA, University of Michigan 2004
• BA, College of Wooster 1999

Courses Taught

• Sound & Voice in African-American Literature
• ILCS:  Unreal Cities
• The Black Atlantic:  From Slave Ships to Hip Hop
• Black Internationalism and the Cold War

Interests

African American cultural and intellectual history; music studies, especially jazz and “creative improvised music”; sound studies; black radicalism; critical theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis; teaching interests also include 20^th c. U.S. arts and culture; minstrelsy in the 20^th century; the 1970s in politics, film, and pop music; historiography and methodology, i.e. “theory for historians”; and speculative fiction.

Work in Progress

After Modern Jazz: Black Music and Decolonization (book manuscript, forthcoming)

Other

On many Sunday afternoons can be heard on WCWS 90.9FM broadcasting a segment called “Try Some Ammonia,” a part of the TransGlobal Groove Collective.