Aaron N. Oforlea
Visiting Consultant and Associate Professor of Black Studies
Office
Brink 224
Email
Mailing Address
English Department
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1102
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102
Professor is an Associate Professor of English at WSU, and is a Visting Consultant and Associate Professor of Black Studies at UI for 2024-2025. Professor Oforlea’s teaching experience includes numerous courses in American and African American literature, Narative Medicine and Medical Humanities, Folklore, including the Black Power Movement as a Foundation of Hip Hop, Black Masculinity, Film Studies, Rhetoric, Media Literacy, and Black Global writers. He is currently working on a book on Race, Narratology, and African American Literary Theory.
- Ph.D. in English, The Ohio State University, 2005
- M.A. in English, California State University, Sacramento0, 1999
- B.A. in English and Black Studies, California State University, Chico, 1995
Courses
- BLST 201 Introduction to Black Studies
Books
- James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity. (The Ohio State UP, 2017).
- Discursive Divide: Narrative Medicine and African American Literature. (in progress) Race, Narratology, and African American Literary Theory. (in progress)
Edited Collection
- African American Folklore: The Foundations of Hip Hop (under contract with UP of Mississippi).
Co-edited Special Issue in a Journal
- “African American Folklore and Critical Race Theory.” Aaron N. Oforlea and Patrick B. Mullen, Guest Editors. The Western Journal of Black Studies. Winter 2012.