Faculty Member, Theatre and Drama
Cornell University, Theatre, Film, and Dance
Yale University, Film Studies
About
Dr. Harvey Young is a professor at Northwestern University, where he holds appointments in African-American Studies, Performance Studies, Radio/Television/Film, and Theatre. Dr. Young is the author of Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body, winner of the 2011 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the National Communication Association; and coeditor of two books: Performance in the Borderlands (2011) and Reenvisioning A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays (forthcoming 2012). He has published more than three dozen essays/articles/chapters on African American culture.
Dr. Young is a Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a past President of the Black Theatre Association. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Theatre Research and the Yale Club of Chicago. A former Harvard and Stanford Fellow, Dr. Young graduated with honors from Yale and holds a Ph.D. from Cornell.









