Julius B. Fleming Jr.

Julius B. Fleming, Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Specializing in Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures, he has particular interests in performance studies, black political culture, diaspora, and colonialism, especially where they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Fleming is the author of Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation (New York University Press, 2022).

His work appears in American Literature, American Literary History, Callaloo, South Atlantic Quarterly, The James Baldwin Review, and The Southern Quarterly. Having served as Associate Editor of Callaloo as well as Black Perspectives (the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society), Fleming has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute, the Social Science Research Council, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University.