Jeffrey Leak

Education

• Ph.D., Emory University, 1997
• M.A., University of Delaware, 1992
• B.A., Campbell University, 1990

Areas of Interest

• Twentieth and Twenty First-Century African American Novel
• Gender and Cultural Studies
• Biography

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
• Racial Myths and Masculinity in African American Literature. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
• Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
• “Henry Dumas and the Challenge of Biography,” American Literature Association Symposium on Biography, Puerto Vallarta , Mexico , 7-10 December 2006.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Level

• Twentieth-Century Black Autobiography ENGL 4050
• Introduction to African American Literature, ENGL 2090/2301
• American Literature1820-1865, ENGL 3141
• American Literature 1920-Present, ENGL 3143
• Masculinity in African American Literature, ENGL 4050
• Twentieth-Century American Novel, ENGL 4144
• African American Literary Criticism and Theory, ENGL 4158
• Black Family in Fiction and Film, LBST 2212

Graduate Level

• Twentieth-Century American Novel, ENGL 5144
• Race and Gender in American Literature, ENGL 6685
• Literature and Culture of the Black Arts Movement, ENGL 6050

Professional Appointments

Faculty Appointments

• UNC Charlotte since 1998

Administrative Appointments/Honors

• Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) to the NCAA, current
• Chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Intercollegiate Athletics, current
• Martin Scholars Program Faculty Fellow, 2017-current
• Member, Inaugural Class of the Emerging Leaders Program of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), 2016
• Faculty President, UNC Charlotte Faculty Council, 2015-2016
• Director, UNC Charlotte Center for the Study of the New South, 2011-2015
• Faculty Associate, UNC Charlotte Academic Affairs, January 2007-January 2008
• Interim Director, McNair Scholars Program, 2001

Community Service

Deacon, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church