Brandon Callender
Assistant Professor of English

Degrees
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.Hunter College, B.A.
Expertise
Black Literatures; Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies; Queer of Color Studies; Horror Studies, Film & Media StudiesProfile
Professor Callender specializes in black and queer literatures with a budding interest in board games and horror studies. He is interested in how black and queer writers, viewers, and players are able to find affirmation in subcultures, genres and spaces that often fail to acknowledge them. His current book project, "The Charge of the Other in Black Gay Men’s Literatures" examines eccentric expressions of desire and belonging that test the limits of respectability and solidarity.Courses Taught
AAAS | 79b | African American Literature of the Twentieth Century |
AMST/ENG | 167b | Writing the Nation: James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison |
ENG | 42a | Blackness and Horror |
ENG | 102a | Ghosts of Race |
ENG | 142b | Black Queer Literatures |
Scholarship
Callender, Brandon. History and its Kind: The Charge of the Other in Black Gay Men's Literatures. Diss. University of California, Berkeley, May 15, 2020. ProQuest, 2020.