Louis Chude-Sokei

Louis Chude-Sokei (US) is Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program at Boston University. Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar whose work ranges widely in and around the literary, political and cultural phenomena of the African Diaspora. Scholarly work includes the award winning “The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora” (Duke University Press, 2006), “The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics” (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), and the forthcoming “Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber and Other Essays” (Wesleyan University Press). Also imminent is a memoir with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that traces his intellectual development across multiple nations and distinct Black cultures. Chude-Sokei is Editor-in-Chief of “The Black Scholar”, one of the oldest journals of Black Studies, which was this year ranked by Princeton Journal reviews as the number one journal of Black Studies in the United States.