Cedric R. Tolliver

Cedric R. Tolliver is associate professor in the English department at the University of Oklahoma. His scholarship and teaching focus on African American literature, culture, and politics. His book, Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cold War, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2019 and recognized as a 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. His work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, among other venues.

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War. Class, Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019.

“The Fragmented Heart of Blackness: The Congo Crisis in African American Culture and Politics.” In Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War, edited by Joseph Keith, and Steven Belletto, 38-56. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.

“The Racial Ends of History: Melancholic Historical Practice in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood.” Arizona Quarterly 70, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 25-52.

Popescu, Monica, Cedric R. Tolliver, and Julie Tolliver, eds. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50, no. 4 Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances During the Cold War (August 2014): 379-83.