Dr. Harvey Young
Critic, Historian, Scholar
Harvey Young is an award-winning author and an internationally recognized authority on African American culture and performing arts. He is a professor at Northwestern University, where he holds appointments in African-American Studies, Performance Studies, Radio/Television/Film, and Theatre.
Dr. Young is the author of Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body, winner of the 2011 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the National Communication Association and the 2011 Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the American Society for Theatre Research, and Theatre and Race (2013). He is the editor/coeditor of three books: Performance in the Borderlands (2011), Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays (2012), and The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre (2013). His sixth book, Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Theater and Dance in Chicago, will be published in November 2013.
Dr. Young is a former Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a past President of the Black Theatre Association. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Theatre Research and the Yale Club of Chicago. A former Stanford Fellow, Dr. Young graduated with honors from Yale and holds a Ph.D. from Cornell. He is currently (2012-2013) a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.
Dr. Young is the author of Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body, winner of the 2011 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the National Communication Association and the 2011 Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the American Society for Theatre Research, and Theatre and Race (2013). He is the editor/coeditor of three books: Performance in the Borderlands (2011), Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays (2012), and The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre (2013). His sixth book, Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Theater and Dance in Chicago, will be published in November 2013.
Dr. Young is a former Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a past President of the Black Theatre Association. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Theatre Research and the Yale Club of Chicago. A former Stanford Fellow, Dr. Young graduated with honors from Yale and holds a Ph.D. from Cornell. He is currently (2012-2013) a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.
