CHARLES I. NERO

EDUCATION

Ph.D.   Speech Communication, Indiana University, Bloomington May 1992
Dissertation: “To Develop Our Manhood”: Free Black Leadership and the Rhetoric of the New Orleans Tribune, 1865-1870

M.A.    Speech Communication, Wake Forest University May 1980
B.A.    Theater Education Xavier University, New Orleans May 1978

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Rhetoric, African American Studies, and American Cultural Studies, Bates College
August 1991–Present

Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Ithaca College
August 1987–May 1990

PUBLICATIONS

Articles and Book Chapters

“What’s Nat Turner Doing Up in Here With All These Queers:  Paul Outlaw’s Berserker; A Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness,” Black and Latino Queer Performances, ed. E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming 2015).

“‘A Hot Mess’: The Camp Signifyin(g) Cinema of Lee Daniels” A Companion to African American Cinema, ed. Mark A. Reid (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, 2014)

“The Souls of Black Gay Folk:  The Black Arts Movement and Melvin Dixon’s Revision of Du Boisian Double Consciousness in Vanishing Rooms, in Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century, ed. Monica Michlin and Jean Paul Rocchi (Liverpool University Press, 2013): 114-126 

“Reading Will Make You Queer:  Gender Inversion and Racial Leadership in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem,” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 2.1 (2013).

“The New Black Wave in Cinema,” A Companion to African American Cinema, ed. Mark A. Reid (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2014)

“Drag Performance and Community Building in Cuba and the United States,” FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies), 16 (2007): 83-94. Co-authored with Baltasar Fra-Molinero.

“When Food Tastes Cosmopolitan: The Creole Fusion of Diaspora Cuisine; An Interview with Jessica B. Harris,” Callaloo  30:1 (2007): 287-303. Co-authored with Baltasar Fra-Molinero.

“Langston Hughes, the Female Gospel Voice and the Broadway Musical Comedy,” In Eileen Hayes and Linda Williams, More Than the Blues:  Black Women and Music (Urbana and Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2007): 72-89.

“Queering The Souls of Black Folk,” Public Culture 17:2 (2005): 255-276.

“Why Are Gay Ghettos White?” In E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson (eds.), Black Queer Studies:  A Critical Anthology (Durham and London:  Duke University Press, 2005): 228-248.

“Diva Traffic and Male Bonding in Film:  Teaching Opera, Learning Gender, Race, and Nation.”  Camera Obscura, 19(2004): 47-74..

“Black Gay Men and White Gay Men:  A Less than Perfect Union.” In Carlos L. Dews and Carolyn Leste Law (eds.), Out in the South (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001): 115-126.

“Fixing Ceremonies:  An Introduction.” Ceremonies. By Essex Hemphill. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2000. xi-xxiii

“Re/Membering Langston: Homophobic Textuality and Arnold Rampersad’s The Life of Langston Hughes.” In Martin Bauml Duberman (ed.), Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures; A Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: New York University Press 1997, pp. 188-196.

“‘Oh, What I Think I Must Tell This World’:  Oratory and Public Address of African American Women.” In Kim M. Vaz (ed.), Black Women in America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications 1995, pp. 261-275.

“Social and Cultural Sensitivity in Group Specific HIV/AIDS Programming.” Journal of Counseling and Development 71 (January/February 1993), pp. 290-297. Coauthors: James M. Croteau and Diane J. Prosser.

“Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Evaluating an Intervention for Leaders of Diverse Communities.” Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development 20 (October, 1992), pp. 161-180. Co-authors: Jim Croteau, Susanne Morgan, and Bruce Henderson.

“Free Speech or Hate Speech?: Pornography and Its Means of Production.” Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian and Gay Legal Issues 2 (1992), pp. 3-9.

“Clarence Pendleton and the Rhetoric of Paradox,” The Howard Journal of Communications 3 (Winter/Spring 1992), pp. 204-217.

“Black Queer Identity, Imaginative Rationality, and the Language of Home.” In Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen (eds.), Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1993, pp. 54-60.

“Towards a Black Gay Aesthetic:  Signifying in Contemporary Black Gay Literature.” In Joseph Beam and Essex Hemphill (eds.), Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1991, pp. 229-252. This essay has been reprinted in Devon Carbado (ed.), Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality (New York UP, 1999); Mel Donaldson (ed.), Cornerstones (St. Martin’s Press 1996); Hazel Arnett Ervin (ed.), African American Literary Criticism–1773 to Present (Twayne Publishers, 1999); Patricia Liggins Hill (gen. ed.), Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (MacMillan Press, 1998); Winston Napier (ed.), African American Literary Theory (New York U P, 2000).

Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, Scholarly Notes and Pamphlets

Editor, A Heavy Grace:  An Interview with Daniel Minter, Bates College, Office of Multicultural Affairs, February 2005. http://cms.bates.edu/Prebuilt/heavygrace.pdf

“Teaching Boys Don’t Cry,” Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching. 67(Spring 2003):
43-44.

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Bruce Nugent. The Journal of the History of Sexuality 12.4 (October 2003): 672-676.

“Wonder and Delight.” A Review of Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Fiction by Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise.  Lambda Book Report (Nov/Dec2002): 25-26.

“Gay Literature” and “Gay Men,” The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, ed, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris.  Oxford UP, 1998, p. 212-213.

Spirits in the Dark (Novel) by H. Nigel Thomas. Lambda Book Review (January/February 1995), p. 47.

Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Poetry) by Cyrus Cassells. Lambda Book Review  (July/August 1994), p. 45.

Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson by James V. Hatch. Bates: The Alumni Magazine, Winter 1994, pp. 42-43.

Prologue: The Novels of Black American Women, 1891-1965 by Carole McAlpine Watson. Women’s Studies in Indiana, 12, (November 1986), p. 3.

INVITED LECTURES

“Gender Inversion and Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem,” Sex in the 21^st Century Symposium, Vanderbilt University African American and Diaspora Studies Program, 22 March, 2012

“Queer Doubling Consciousness and the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance,” Keynote Address, Celebrating African American Literature Conference, Pennsylvania State University, Departments of African American Studies and English, 1 October 2011.

“Tongued Untied: A History of Black Gay Writing,” Black Gay Research Summit, Brooklyn, New York, August 2005.

“Langston Hughes and the Gospel Musical,” National Black Theater Festival Colloquium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August 2005.

“Queering The Souls of Black Folk,” 100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk: A Conference Sponsored by Northwestern University’s Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities and African American Studies Department, 2004, Oct. 23-25.

“The Politics of Home in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun,” National Black Theater Festival, August 2003.

Participant. “Ethnic Notions: A Symposium on White Identity and Racial Stereotyping.”  Texas A & M University, 21 February 2002.

“Black Gay Life Writing,” Fire and Ink: A Writer’s Festival for GLBT People of African Descent,” University of Illinois—Chicago, 19-22 September, 2002.

“Whoopi Messiah: Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act.” Presented at the Makin’ Whoopi Symposium, Bates College. 19-20 May, 2000.

“Why Are the Gay Ghettoes White?: A Hypothesis about the Function of The Black Gay Impostor as Controlling Image in White Gay Discourse.” Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 7-9 April, 2000.

“The Frustrated Queens in Bebe Moore Campbell’s Brothers and Sisters.” ‘The Endlessly Beckoning Horizon’: Afro-American Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century. The University of Pennsylvania, September 30-October 2, 1999.

“Revenge of the Reading Queer: Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits and Afro-Homophobia.” Myth, Memory, and Migration: The Black South in the Cultural Imagination Conference. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October, 3, 1997.

“Marlon Riggs: Black Gay Jeremiah.” Lavender Language Conference. American University, Washington, DC. February, 1996.

“Black Gay Literature and Film.” Western Michigan University, March 28, 1996.

“A Hell of a Place to Be: Black Gay Men in the Epic of ‘Black Biography.'”

The Phenomenology Conference, University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse. 25 March 1994.
The Ray Smith Symposium Series, “Coming Out: Scholarship Across the Disciplines Conference,” Syracuse University. 19 February, 1994. Colloquia Series, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York. 1 February, 1994.

Graduate Gay and Lesbian Alliance Speaker Series, State University of New York, Buffalo. 11 November, 1993.

“Is Pornography Hateful Speech?” (1991, October 4). Presentation for the Second Annual Lesbian/Gay Rights Symposium sponsored by the Tulane Law School. 4 October, 1991.

“Black, Red, Green and Pink: Nationalism in African American Gay Literature.”  Presentation for the series Contemporary Research and Scholarship on Gay and Lesbian Lives, Pennsylvania State University. 15 February, 1990.

“The Spirituals: Protest Music of Slavery.” (February, 1980). Guest Speaker for the Annual Observance of Black History Month at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Valdosta, GA.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Screening Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Germany: Liberation Theology in Géza von Radványi’s 1965 Onkel Toms Hütte,” Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200, Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, Bowdoin College, 23-25 June 2011.

“The Souls of Black Gay Folk:  The Black Arts Movement and Melvin Dixon’s Revision of Du Boisian Double Consciousness in Vanishing Rooms, Black States of Desire:  Dispossession, Circulation, Transformation,” Collegium on African American Research, University of Paris, France.  6-9 April 2011.

“Gay Black Consciousness and the Black Arts Movement Aesthetic in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Rooms,” Art and Power in Movement:  An International Conference on Rethinking the Black Power and Arts Movements,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 18-20 November 2010.

“The Democracy of Sin Theme in the Novels of E. Lynn Harris,” Annual Meeting of the College Language Association, Miami, Florida, May 2007.

“Stephen Speilberg’s Amistad, The Black Buck Stereotype, and the Christian Black Magus Image,” Annual Meeting of the College Language Association, University of Georgia, Athens, April 2005.

“The Incorruptible Body of the Black Gift-Bearer: Djimon Hounsou,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, England, April 2005.

“Lessons in Race and Nation: Teaching Opera in Philadelphia, Shawshank Redemption, and Frese y Chocolate.” Annual Meeting of the College Language Association.  April, 2001.

“Evading History: Biracial Male Bonding and Operatic Tutelage in Film,” Real to Reel: Black Life in Cinema Conference,” Department of African American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5-7 April, 2001.

“Respondent.” Engaging Ourselves: Interrogating, Exploring, and Revisting Cool Pose. National Communication Association Convention. 10 November, 2000.

“Black Gay Literatures and African American Studies.” First Colloquium, Gay and Lesbian Studies in Southern Africa. University of Cape Town, South Africa.  October, 1995.

“Homophobia and the Changing Discourse of Civil Rights.” The Changing Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement and Its Meaning for Public Policy. TGIF Lecture Series, Bates College. 2 December 1994.

“Voice and Gender in Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address.” Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.  November, 1994.

“Limitations of Life: Sexuality and Black Intellectuals.” Imagining the Limits: Interrogating the Past/Contesting the Future; A Joint CUNY Rockefeller Fellows Colloquium, New York University. 21 May, 1994.

“Kinship and the Black Imagination.” Health Care, Media and the Nation Conference. New York University. Sponsored by Department of Performance Studies, New York University and Department of African and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University. 16 April, 1994.

“Looking for Daddy: Homosocial Desire in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X.” Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Miami, FL. November 1993.

“Reconstructing Manhood: Tongues Untied, AIDS and the Afro-Gay Jeremiad.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada. Dec. 1993.

“My Bondage, My Community; My Freedom, My Anonymity: A Dilemma of Gay Black Teens in Contemporary Literature.” Presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association, Daytona Beach, FL. April 1992.

“Toussaint’s Daughters: Black Women Playwrights and the Haitian Revolution.”  Presented at Text and Presentation XVII, Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida. March 1992.

Panelist, Dimensions of the political correctness-cultural conservatism debate.  Annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Chicago, IL. October, 1992.

“Finding an angle of vision: The rhetorical theory curriculum in a multicultural society.”  May 1992.

“Morrison’s Anti-Hero: Soaphead Church, A Very Clean Old Man.” Presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association, Knoxville, TN.

” From Slaves to Rulers: The Haitian Revolution in Diaspora Drama.” Presented at Text and Presentation XVI, Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida.  March 1992.

“My Bondage, My Community; My Freedom, My Anonymity: A Dilemma of Gay Black Teens in Contemporary Literature.” Presented at the annual meeting of the College Language Association, Daytona Beach, FL. April 1992.

“Getting Past the Myth of Race and Gender Neutrality in the Public Speaking Class.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, GA. November 1991.

“Remembering Langston: Memory, Gender Politics, and the Struggle for Langston Hughes.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, GA. November 1991.

“Uncle Tom or Bad Nigger: Myth as Rhetorical Constraint in the Reception of Nelson Mandela’s 1990 tour of the United States.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA. April 1991.

“Addressing AIDS-related stigma: An Intervention for Leaders of Diverse Communities.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American College Personnel Association, Atlanta, GA. (Co-presenter: J. Croteau). March 1991.

“Problematic Heroism: Psychopathic Discourse and Toni Morrison’s Soaphead Church and Black men of the Sweet Home Plantation.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Humanities Council, Chattanooga, TN. February, 1991.

“Clarence Pendleton and the Rhetoric of Paradox.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Chicago, IL. November, 1990.

“Post-Black Power and Stonewall Literature by Black Gay Men.” Presented at the Fourth Annual Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Conference, Harvard University. October 1990.

“Oppression or liberation: The ‘domestic impulse’ as problem in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA. May, 1990.

“Resisting Heterosexism in Black America: The Politics of Desire in African American Gay Literature.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, CA. November 1989.

“A Plaintive Cry for Community: Cultural Isolation in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Tar Baby.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Ocean City, MD. May, 1989.

“Persuasion by Paradox: The Rhetoric of Clarence Pendleton.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Ocean City, MD. May, 1989.

“An Annotated Syllabus for the Teaching of a Black English Course.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Ocean City, MD.  May, 1989.

“From ‘Birth of a Nation’ to ‘Gone With the Wind’: The Images of Blacks in American Cinema Between the World Wars.” Presented at the Ithaca College Faculty-Student Seminar on Racism and Civil Right in the United States Between the World Wars. 1989, February 20.

“Towards a Black Gay Aesthetic: The Post-Stonewall/Black Power Response of Black American Gay Men.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. November, 1988.

“AIDS and Black Americans.” Presented at a pre-convention seminar, “Ethical Issues, Rhetorical Answers in the AIDS Crisis,” at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. November 1988.

“Colonel North Goes to Washington: Public Narrative in the Iran/Contra Hearings.”  (Top Three: Political Communication). Presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD. May, 1988.

“Black American Religion: An Alternative Tradition. Guest Speaker at the bi-annual Worship in the Black Tradition service, Muller Chapel, Ithaca College. 6 December, 1987.

“‘There Can Be No Progress Without Peace’: W.E.B. DuBois and the 1950 Campaign for the United States Senate.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Boston, MA. November, 1987.

“From Slaves to Rulers: Four Writers View the Haitian Revolution.” Presented at the Second Conference on The Legacy of Colonialism: Focus on The Caribbean and the Americas, The Afro-American Studies Center of Purdue University, IN.  March, 1987.

“The Persuasive Uses of Proverbs in Traditional African Societies.” Presented at the annual Conference on African Linguistics, Bloomington, IN. April, 1986.

THEATER, PERFORMANCE, AND DOCUMENTARY

Adaptor and Director, “Of the Coming of John,” Reader’s Theater for W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk: The First 100 Years,” 10-11 October, 2003.

Interviewee, Off the Straight and Narrow:  Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Television.  A Media Education Foundation Documentary (Northhampton:  MA, 1998).

“Bailey” in Cheryl West’s Before It Hits Home. Directed by Elizabeth Hadley. Gannett Theater, Bates College. February, 1996.

Adaptor and Director. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Readers theater production.  Bates College. May, 1992.

Performer. Showcase of feeling: The Rhetoric of AIDS. Reader’s theater at annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Ocean City, MD. May 1989.

Audio Recording for classroom instruction of Black plays from the Negro Wing of the Federal Theater of the 1930s. Adviser/Director: Dr. Winona L. Fletcher.  Summer, 1986.

Adaptor and Director. How I got Ovuh!: Afro-American Folklore in Performance.  Reader’s theater for Introduction to Afro-American Culture class, Indiana University. October, 1985.

Sound Technician for Dashiki Project Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana (Fall, 1982).

Adaptor and Director. Keep on Steppin’. Reader’s theater for Black History Month at Valdosta State College, Valdosta, GA. February 1981.

AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS

• Bates College Travel Grant, Beinecke Library, Yale University
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2005-2006). Project Title: “Writing a New African Diasporic World: Melvin Dixon, Joseph Beam and the Generation of the 1980s.”
• Bates College Grant of $20,000 for Symposium, “W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk: The First 100 Years” (2004) http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/DuBois/
• Bates College Travel Grant to attend San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (2003)
• Bates College Travel Grant to attend the American Black Film Festival in Acapulco, Mexico; and MIX New York Experimental Film Festival (2001-2002)
• Phillips Fellowship Travel Grant for Research, Winter 2001
• Bates College Summer Research Grant for Travel to Cuba, 2000
• Bates College Summer Research Grant for Travel to CapeTown, South Africa, 1999
• Scholar in Residence, Western Michigan University, March 27-28, 1996
• Rockefeller Residency Fellowship in the Humanities, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1993-1994.
• Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 1991. Selected to attend the six week seminar “History, Content and Method in Afro-American Studies.”
• Grant from the American College Health Association, 1989 (jointly with three colleagues).  Received funding to design, implement, and evaluate a retreat for campus leaders on racism, sexism, and homophobia in the AIDS crisis.
• Ithaca College Research Grant, 1988. Received funding to attend Chautauqua Short Course, “From the Sin of Onan to the Smoke of Auswitch.” State University of New York, Stony Brook.
• Graduate Minority Fellowship, 1986-1987, Indiana University, Bloomington.  United StatesDepartment of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Summers, 1985, 1986, 1987. Received funding to study the Bambara/Mandinka language of West Africa at Indiana University.
• Equal Opportunity Fellowship, Indiana University, Summer, 1984.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Bates College

Chair, Martin Luther King Jr planning committee, 2010-2014

Prologue, A Program by Bates Admission, November 2012

Member, Search Committee for the Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Vice President, 2012-2013

Member, President’s Diversity Task Force, 2010-2012

Presenter, “Academic Life at Bates College,” Prologue.  10 November, 2008

Financial and Advisory Committee to the President, 2006-Present

Search Committee for The Dean of Students, 2004

Organizer of Makin’ Whoopi Symposium, May 2000 www.bates.edu/~cnero/makinwhoopi.html

Steering Committee of the Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Consortium

Program in CapeTown, South Africa. 1998-2000

Member of the African American and American Cultural Studies
Committee, 1991-Present

Member of the Extracurricular Activities and Residential Life Committee, 1998-2001

Advisor, AMANDLA! (formerly Bates Afro-American Society), 1991-1996

Advisor, OUTFRONT! (formerly Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Alliance),
1991- 2001

Member of the College Lecture Series Committee, 1995

Member, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Committee, 1996, 1998, 2006-2008

HIV/AIDS Awareness Committee, 1996

Member, Committee on Homophobia and Institutional Change, 1997-2000

Organized African Diaspora Film Festival, 1998

Organized Lectures, Exhibits, and Performances for the following:

Bryant Keith Alexander, Scholar in Performance Studies

Michael Cummings, Quilter and Artist

DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter, Filmmakers

Shari Frilot, Filmmaker

Paula Giddings, Historian

Elizabeth A. Hadley, Film Scholar

Essex Hemphill, Poet

E. Patrick Johnson, Scholar in Performance Studies

Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Historian and Literary Critic

Nancy D. Kates, Filmmaker (Brother/Outsider; The Life of Bayard Rustin)

Henri E. Norris, CEO New Millennia Films

H. Nigel Thomas, Novelist and Literary Critic

Kim Marie Vaz, Scholar in Women’s Studies

Wendy Sutherland, Professor of German Studies (co-sponsored by Mellon Learning Associates Program in the Humanities)

DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller, the Subliminal Kid), Hip-Hop Artist and Film Scorer

Ithaca College

Member, Curriculum Committee for the School of Humanities and
Sciences, 1988-1990.

Member, Vice-President of Student Affairs’ Committee on Campus
Diversity, 1989-1990.

Organized Black History Month Film and Speaker Series, February 1990

Indiana University

Indiana University Black Knowledge Bowl: Coach, 1985-1987.

Afro-American Studies Newsletter: Co-Editor, 1985-1986.

Indiana University Black Graduate Council: Recording Secretary,
1984-1985

Professional Organizations

Manuscript Reader
The Howard Journal of Communications
Text and Performance Quarterly
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Editorial Board, Howard Journal of Communications, 1994-1998

Session Organizer, “Minorities in the Reagan-Bush Administrations,”
for the annual meeting of the Speech Communication
Association, November 1990

Program Chair, Minority Voices Interest Group, Eastern
Communication Association, 1990-1991

Program Chair, Caucus on Gay and Lesbian Concerns, 1991
Secretary, The Black Caucus, Speech Communication Association,
1986-88

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

College Language Association

National Communication Association

Langston Hughes Society

Modern Language Association

American Studies Association

AREAS OF TEACHING INTEREST

19th and 20th Century African American Literature

American Film

African American Studies

African American Film

African American Oratory

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to African American Studies http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/AAS/IntroAfAmStudies.htm

African American Oratory and Public Address http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/rhetoric-film-screen-studies/AfAmPublicAddress.htm

White Redemption: Cinema & the Cooptation of African American History http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/rhetoric-film-screen-studies/WhiteRedemption.htm

Place, Word, Sound: New Orleans http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/neworleans.html

Black Lesbian and Gay Literatures

The Whitelands: Cinematic Nightmares

Language and Communication of Black Americans

Seminar in the Harlem Renaissance

Film and the Critical Gay Gaze

Lesbian and Gay Images in Film

Makin’ Whoopi: Goldberg’s Canon

Rhetorical Theory

Sexuality in the Era of AIDS

Hate, the State and Representation

Intercultural Communication

Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement