Anthony Reed is Professor of English and The Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University. He has published widely on poetry, poetics, and experimental aesthetics in the African diaspora. Among his works are the monographs Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014), which won the 2014 William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture, and Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2021). He recently edited Langston Hughes in Context with Vera Kutzinski (Cambridge UP, 2022). He is currently working on two research projects: one on Black lyric theory and a related project that looks to literature, film, and popular music to develop an account of diaspora from below amid the waning influence of Pan-Africanism and Communism in and beyond the former Third World.
