#  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: The DuBois Institute, 104 Mt Auburn St, 3rd Floor 

 smartphone [617-496-5468](tel:617-496-5468) 

 email <gates@harvard.edu> 

By appointment

 

 



 

Education: B.A., Yale University (1973)  
M.A., University of Cambridge (1974)  
Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1979)  
  
Interests: African and African-American Literature; Cultural Theory.

Selected Works:  
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (2021); The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers (2017); The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader (2012); Faces of America (2010); Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora (2010); Faces of America (film) (2010); In Search of Our Roots (2009); Lincoln on Race and Slavery (edited, 2009); Looking for Lincoln (film) (2009); African American National Biography (co-edited, 2008); African American Lives 2 (film) (2008); Finding Oprah’s Roots (2007).



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Faculty](/role/faculty)