Julius B Fleming, Jr.

University of Maryland, College Park, English, Faculty Member

Tougaloo College, English, Undergraduate

University of Pennsylvania, English, Graduate Student

University of Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, Post-Doc

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Julius B. Fleming, Jr. is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. 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. Professor Fleming is the author of Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation (NYU Press 2022), and is beginning work on a second book project that explores the new geographies of colonial expansion and their impact on Afro-diasporic literary and cultural production. His work appears in journals like American Literature, American Literary History, South Atlantic Quarterly, Callaloo, and The Southern Quarterly. Having served as Associate Editor of Callaloo, Professor Fleming is currently serving as Associate Editor of Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. He has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute, and the Social Science Research Council.
Supervisors: Thadious M. Davis, Herman Beavers, and John Jackson, Jr

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Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan

Theatre Journal, 2016

Black Patience

Black Patience reconsiders the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of black theatre. It ar... more Black Patience reconsiders the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of black theatre. It argues that black theatrical performance—like television and photography—was a vital technology of civil rights activism, and a crucial site of black artistic and cultural production. More specifically, it demonstrates how black artists and activists used theatrical performance to unsettle a violent racial project that this book refers to as black patience: a historical regulation of black time and black affect through the performance of waiting and long-suffering. From slave castles to the hold of the slave ship, from the auction block to commands to “go slow” in fighting segregation, black patience has aimed to deny black freedom, to delay black citizenship, and to cement the uneven distributions of power at the heart of modernity’s racial order. During the Civil Rights Movement, however, black people’s demands for “freedom now” posed a radical challenge to black patience. Theatre was ce...

Black Patience

“Living Proof of Something So Terrible”

Living Legacies

A Poet’s Search for Black Humanism: Requiem for Alvin Bernard Aubert

Callaloo, 2014

Shattering Black Flesh: Black Intellectual Writing in the Age of Ferguson

American Literary History, 2016

I am a black intellectual. I love black people. I abhor antiblackness. Black freedom, for me, is ... more

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