Louis Chude-Sokei

American academic and writer. His work includes, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (Duke 2006); The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Techno-Poetics (Wesleyan University Press 2015); Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber and Other Essays (Wesleyan). He is also editor-in-chief of website / journal, The Black Scholar. His research focus includes modern and contemporary American literature; literatures of the African diaspora (Caribbean, African-American, and West African); Africana criticism and theory; media and popular culture; music and cultural politics. He is Professor of English and the George and Joyce Wein Chair at Boston University where he is also Director of African American Studies.