Title
Associate Professor of English

Department
Dept of English


Faculty URL
http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/74

Email
bwagner@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
critical theory, African American literature, historiography

Research Description
Bryan Wagner is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a PhD in English from the University of Virginia before coming to Berkeley in 2002. His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has secondary interests in legal history, urban studies,?and popular music. He has published?Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery?(Harvard UP, 2009) and?The Tar Baby: A Global History?(Princeton UP, 2017). A?book?on?The Wild Tchoupitoulas—a landmark 1976 album?of processional call-and-response music arranged as electric funk—is forthcoming in the 33 1/3 Series from Bloomsbury. Other?work?includes a collaborative digital cartographic archive,?Louisiana Slave Conspiracies, and a critical?edition,?Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced the Bamboula, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love.