Harvey Young

Harvey Young (Ph.D.) is an African-American cultural historian, theorist, and scholar.

Contributions

Harvey young has made significant contributions in the fields of performance studies and critical race theory. He is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University, where he holds appointments in African American Studies, Theatre, Performance Studies, and Radio/Television/Film. A past President of the Black Theatre Association, Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and board member of the American Society for Theatre Research and the Yale Club of Chicago, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago and the editorial board of Theatre Topics. He is Associate Editor of Theatre Survey.

Books

Harvey young first book, Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory and the Black Body (2010) chronicles a set of black experiences, or what he calls, "phenomenal blackness," that developed not only from the experience of abuse but also from a variety of performances of resistance that were devised to respond to the highly predictable and anticipated arrival of racial violence within a person's lifetime. The book won the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship and was hailed by Theatre Journal as "performance studies at its engaged and engaging best."

His other books include:

• Performance in the Borderlands (2011) with Ramon Rivera-Servera.
• Re imagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays (2012) with Rebecca Ann Rugg, featuring plays by Bruce Norris, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Robert O'Hara, and Gloria Bond Clunie.
• The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre (2013).
• Theatre and Race (forthcoming, 2013).
• Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews, Addresses and Commentaries (forthcoming 2013).
• Black lives matter: Interviews, Addresses and Commentaries (forthcoming) 2017

• Harvey Young. "Embodying Black Experience". Press.umich.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-30. 
• "Project MUSE - Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body (review)". Muse.jhu.edu. doi:10.1353/tj.2011.0008. Retrieved 2016-03-30. 
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2011. 
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 9, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013. 
• "The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre | American Theatre | Cambridge University Press". Cambridge.org. 2015-05-27. Retrieved 2016-03-30. 
• "Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries (Paperback)". Routledge. Retrieved 2016-03-30.