Dyson, Michael Eric (Personal Name)

His Uses of heroes, 1993: t.p. (Michael Eric Dyson)

LC in RLIN, 5-20-93 (hdg.: Dyson, Michael Eric)

Info. from Princeton University Archives, 5-20-93 (Dyson, Michael Eric, b. 10-23-58)

African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Dyson, Michael Eric; essayist, educator, lecturer, historian, Baptist clergy, cultural critic; born 23 October 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; licensed Baptist preacher (1979) and ordained minister (1981); B.A. at Carson-Newman College (1982), M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1993), Princeton University; taught ethics and cultural criticism at Brown University; became a professor of communication studies and director of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; visiting distinguished professor of African American studies at Columbia University; Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at Depaul University; Avalon Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; in 2007 moved to teach at Georgetown University)

African American National Biography, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dyson, Michael Eric; essayist, educator, lecturer, historian, Baptist clergy, cultural critic; born 23 October 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; BA from Carson-Newman College (1982); MA and Ph.D. from Princeton University (1991, 1993); Baptist preacher and ordained minister (1979-1981); professor at Brown University (1993-1995); director of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; the Avalon Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2002-2007); professor at Georgetown (2007); published books include, Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (1993), Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (1995), Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (1996); honors include, Notable Book of 1994 by the New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the outstanding books by Black Issues Book Review, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (2006))