Faculty: Professors


 

Richard Yarborough
(Ph.D., Stanford)
Associate Professor of African-American Literature and Culture; American Literature; UCLA

Faculty Research Associate for the Center of African American Studies

Research Interests:
Richard Yarborough has received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987, been recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Member by the African Student Union in 1997, and received a commendation from the City of Los Angeles in 1990. He has published extensively on African American literature, and he is a literary historian who was one of the co-editors of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.
Richard Yarborough's publicated works include:
Associate General Editor, with Paul Lauter (General Editor), Juan Bruce-Nova, Elaine Hedges, Anne Goodwyn, Amy Ling, Daniel F. Littlefield, Wendy Martin, Charles Molesworth, Carla Mulford, Raymond Paredes, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Andrew Wiget. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 2nd ed., rev. 2 vols. Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath 1994.
Coeditor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (General Editors), William L. Andrews, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Barbara T. Christian, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. MacDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Arnold Ranpersad, and Hortense Spillers. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

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Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
160 Haines Hall, Box 951545, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1545
(310) 825-7403

 

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