Harvey Young

Contributions

Harvey Young has made significant contributions in the fields of performance studies and critical race theory. He is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University, where he holds appointments in African American Studies, Theatre, Performance Studies, and Radio/Television/Film. A past President of the Black Theatre Association, Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and board member of the American Society for Theatre Research and the Yale Club of Chicago, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago and the editorial board of Theatre Topics. He is Associate Editor of Theatre Survey.

Books

Harvey young first book, Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory and the Black Body (2010) chronicles a set of black experiences, or what he calls, "phenomenal blackness," that developed not only from the experience of abuse but also from a variety of performances of resistance that were devised to respond to the highly predictable and anticipated arrival of racial violence within a person's lifetime. The book won the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship and was hailed by Theatre Journal as "performance studies at its engaged and engaging best."

His other books include: