James Richardson, Assistant Professor

James Richardson joined HU's English department in September 2008 as assistant professor. A 1986 graduate of Hampton with a B.A. in Biology, Richardson completed his M.A. in English at Miami University (Oxford, OH), where he was awarded the Havighurst Award in Poetry, and Emory University, where he is currently writing his doctoral thesis "Theorizing a Diasporic Aesthetic in Twentieth-Century Black and Jewish American Autobiography." Richardson has taught at Kennesaw State University, Morehouse College, and Phillips Academy. An Academy of American Poets winner and winner of the 2004 Associated Writing Program's Writing Centers and Conferences Award (Poetry), Richardson's poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Mothering Magazine, Indiana Review, and the anthology Rainbow Darkness: Poems and Essays from the Diversity in African American Poetry Conference. Richardson teaches composition and literary form; his research interests include grammar analysis, rhetoric, philosophy, and critical theories of race, class, and gender identity.

Phone: (757) 637-2106
E-mail: james.richardson@hamptonu.edu