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Riché Richardson is Associate Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University where she is serving a second two-year term as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She is a scholar of African American literature with additional specialties in American literature, Southern studies and gender studies. Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, she attended Spelman College, and received her B.A. in English in 1993 with minors in philosophy and women's studies. She received her Ph.D. in American literature from Duke University in 1998 and a Certificate in African and African American Studies. She spent the first 10 years of her career teaching in the English department at UC Davis (1998-2008). At UC Davis, she served as the campus representative on the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Advisory Committee (2006-08) and was awarded with a Special Citation from the university as a faculty member in 2008 for Diversity and the Principles of Community. Among her other awards are a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship. Her essays have been published in journals such as American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, TransAtlantica, the Southern Quarterly, Black Camera, and NKA. Her first book, Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007), was highlighted by Choice Books among the "Outstanding Academic Titles of 2008," and by Eastern Book Company among the "Outstanding Academic Titles, Humanities, 2008." She is now completing a book manuscript that examines the U.S. South in relation to black femininity and the national body. Since 2005, she has served as co-editor with Jon Smith of the New Southern Studies book series at the University of Georgia Press.
As a visual artist, her work has been featured in several solo and group museum exhibitions, including national exhibitions. Her art is the subject of a short film made in Paris by Anne Crémieux and Géraldine Chouard entitled A Portrait of the Artist (2008), is featured in the Lauren Cross film The Skin Quilt Project (2010), and is the subject of a chapter of Patricia A. Turner's Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters. In January of 2009, she was invited to Paris as a "Cultural Envoy" of the U.S. Embassy in France, was featured in their "Speaker Series" through a grant from the U.S. State Department, and was honored with a talk, exhibition, film screening and reception at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence.
A Montgomery, Alabama native, Riché Richardson was honored to be the invited speaker at the gala celebration of Rosa Parks's 100th birthday in the city on February 4, 2013 held at Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum, and to be invited by the postmaster, Donald Snipes, to participate in the city's historic stamp unveiling in honor of the activist. Richardson's most recent publications include an essay entitled "Rosa Parks in Reel Time" in the Southern Quarterly. In her work as a quilt artist, five of Richardson's signature three-dimensional applique art quilts were exhibited at the Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor, New York from April-July 2014 in an exhibition entitled "Warmth," which was curated by the UCLA administrator and folklorist, Patricia A. Turner
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Associate Professor|
Cornell University
From January 2009 to Current • 17 year(s)
Professor in Africana Studies and Research Center, tenured 2009.
Associate Professor|
Cornell University
From January 2008 to December 2009 • 1 year(s)
Associate Professor in Africana Studies and Research Center, tenure track.
Associate Professor|
University of California, Davis
From January 2005 to December 2008 • 3 year(s)
Associate Professor in Department of English, tenured 2005.
Instructor|
Breadloaf School of English
From June 2008 to July 2008 • 0 year(s)
Six-week summer teaching position at University of North Carolina.
Assistant Professor|
University of California, Davis
From January 1998 to December 2005 • 7 year(s)
Assistant Professor in Department of English.
Research Assistant|
Duke University
From January 1996 to December 1998 • 2 year(s)
Research Assistant in Department of English.
Teaching Assistant|
Duke University
From January 1995 to December 1995 • 0 year(s)
Teaching Assistant for 5 courses in Department of English.
Teaching Apprentice|
Milton Academy
From January 1993 to December 1993 • 0 year(s)
Teaching Apprentice in Massachusetts Advanced Studies Program.
Biomedical Research Intern|
Alabama State University
From June 1989 to August 1989 • 0 year(s)
Summer biomedical research internship.
