- Ph.D., Indiana University, 2001
- M.A., University of Virginia, 1996
- B.A., Indiana University, 1994
Walton Muyumba
Associate Professor, English
Susan D. Gubar Chair of Literature (interim)
- wmuyumba@indiana.edu
- Ballantine Hall 425
- Office Hours
Education
About Walton Muyumba
My areas of interest and specialization include African American literature, global Black literature, American literature, literary and arts criticism, creative nonfiction, Black Atlantic studies, jazz studies, cultural studies, pragmatism, and postcolonial studies.
My scholarship has appeared in The Cambridge History of American Poetry, The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisational Studies, and Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice.
I have published criticism in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The New York Times, and Oxford American, among other outlets.
Currently, I’m completing an essay collection on practices of freedom in global Black literature and art. I’m also writing a memoir.
Journal Articles and Other Publications
Selected Book Chapters:
“Thinking About The Underground Railroad: with Walton M. Muyumba, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Kristen J. Warner.” Film Quarterly, 75.2, 2021, pp. 19-26
“Artists in Residence: Jason Moran and the Bandwagon Improvising Freedom (After Kentridge, Kelly, Walker, and Komunyakaa)” liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies, 5.2, October 2021.
“Floating in Time with John Edgar Wideman.” The New York Review of Books, 6 April 2021.
“A Denzel Washington Filmography of Character, Death, And Mercy.” The Believer 1 October 2020: 38-39.
“Brilliant Corners: Improvisation and Practices of Freedom in Sent for You Yesterday.” Lewis,
George, and Benjamin Piekut. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies,Volume 2. 1st ed., New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp.
"Black and Blues Configurations: African American Poetics Since 1960." The Cambridge History of American Poetry, Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt, eds. (Cambridge University Press, October 2014)
"‘All safety is an illusion’: John Dewey, James Baldwin and the Democratic Practice of Public Critique." Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice, Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark, eds. (University of South Carolina Press, 2014)
The College of Arts