Rudolph P. Byrd
Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University, 1985

Research Interests

African American Studies Literature and Philosophy, Biography, Photography, Sexuality,
Gender, The New Negro Movement

Publications and Projects

• Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist, 1923-1936, (University of Georgia, 1990)
• Essentials, (University of Georgia Press, 1991; Hill Street Press, 1999)
  
• Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial
  
• Collection of Negro Arts and Letters, (University of Georgia Press, 1993)
  
• I Call Myself an Artist: Writings By and About Charles Johnson (Indiana University Press, 1999)

Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press, 2000