Anthony Stewart

Anthony Stewart is Associate Professor in the English Department at Dalhousie University. His main research interest is twentieth-century African American literature and culture. He has articles accepted or in print on the work of August Wilson, Ralph Ellison, and Percival Everett, as well as “The Professional Sports Shell Game: A Black Canadian’s Reflections on Twentieth-Century American Sports History.” Dr. Stewart also teaches twentieth-century British literature and is the author of two articles on the work of George Orwell and of George Orwell, Doubleness and the Value of Decency. For the last three years, he has served as editor of The Dalhousie Review. At present, Dr. Stewart is at work on a book-length project on the work of Percival Everett as well as an article speculating on how the African American narrative might be changed–with the election of Barack Obama–from one that has long relied upon sports as a source of role models to one that would include images of public service.

 

Books by Anthony Stewart

You Must be a Basketball Player

You Must be a Basketball Player

Rethinking Integration in the University

Anthony Stewart

“Courageous and peerless, accessible and engaging, Stewart’s critique of the unseemly whiteness of the academy is a tour de force. His account of white academic privilege, homogeneity, cowardice, and hypocrisy with respect to matters of race and integration proceeds with keen insight and telling intellectual rigor. His analysis of white academia’s ‘theoretical’ evisceration of race and its practical and discursive actualities is nothing short of brilliant. The indictment… (more information)