Rate My Professor Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman

Abdur-Rahman authored Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race (Duke University Press, 2012) and Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture (Duke University Press, 2024). Her essays appear in African American Review—for which she received the Darwin Turner Award for Best Essay of the Year twice—American Literary History, GLQ, The Faulkner Journal, The Black Scholar, and The James Baldwin Review. Contributions to edited collections include Faulkner and Whiteness, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin, and The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. She holds fellowships from the Ford Foundation, American Association of University Women, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Mellon Foundation, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin, and JFK Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. As a scholar-activist, she contributes commentary to The Feminist Wire and A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought. Her teaching encompasses courses such as Contemporary Narratives of US Slavery, Black Feminism: Roots, Routes, Futures, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, The Black Aesthetic, and Pembroke Research Seminars on the afterlives of ruin.