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Bill V. Mullen | |
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| Born | August 15, 1959 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ph.D. in English at the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center (1990) B.A. in English from Occidental College (1981) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, Academic, Writer, Lecturer, Professor |
| Years active | 1990-present |
| Parent(s) | John and Lynn Mullen |
Bill V. Mullen is an American Author, Scholar, Writer, Lecturer, and Professor. He is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at "Purdue University". He has authored several books, including James Baldwin: Living in Fire,.[1] and We Charge Genocide!: American Fascism and the Rule of Law,[2]Additionally, Mullen is an active member of the organizing collective for the United States Campaign for the "Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)"[3]
Early Life and Career
[edit]Bill V. Mullen earned his B.A. in English from Occidental College in 1981. He earned his Ph.D. in American literature in 1990 from the City University of New York Graduate Center. In 1985-1985 he was a lecturer at the Changsha Railway Institute in the People’s Republic of China.In 1989 he was a visiting lecturer at Bryn Bryn Mawr College.From 1990-2000, he was Assistant and Associate Professor at Youngstown State University.At YSU, he held a position as officer with YSU-OEA, the Ohio Education Association faculty union.In 1997, he served as a Fulbright Lecturer at Wuhan University in the PRC. From 2000-2005, he was Associate and Full Professor of African-American Literature at University of Texas-San Antonio.From 2005-2020 he was Full Professor of American Studies at Purdue University, From 2005-2010, he was Director of American Studies at Purdue. At Purdue he served one term as Vice President of Purdue’s AAUP chapter. He currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer for AAUP Local 6741[4]. He is also a member of the organizing collective for CAHE (Coalition for Action in Higher Education)[5] CAHE is the organizer of the annual Day of Action for Higher Education. [6]
In addition to academic union organizing, Mullen is known as a scholar/activist in support of Palestinian liberation. In 2009, he became a member of the organizing collective for USACBI (United States Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). [7]. In 2012, he traveled on an academic delegation to Palestine. In 2013, he participated in the successful campaign within the American Studies Association to boycott Israeli universities, passed by a 2-1 membership vote. In 2015, he co-edited with Ashley Dawson Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities.[8]
In 2020 and 2023, he helped to organize the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, the first Palestinian literature festival in North America.[9]. He is currently a member of WAWOG (Writers Against the War on Gaza)[10].He is also a member of the international group Socialist Horizon.[11].
Work
[edit]Bill V. Mullen is best known for authoring books on antiracist, intersectional, international movements against capitalism, racism, fascism and heteronormativity. His single-authored books include Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946 (University of Illinois Press, 1999)[12] A study of Black radical cultural and political work on the South Side of Chicago. The book examines radical political connections between lesser-known Chicago cultural workers like Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs and well-known figures like poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
His second book, Afro-Orientalism, illuminates the long history of solidarities and resistance between peoples of African and Asian descent, including figures like W.E.B. Du Bois and Grace Lee Boggs.[13]
His third book, Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution (Temple University Press, 2015) [14], shows how Du Bois’s body of thought and political activism were shaped by the promise of “world revolution” after the 1917 Russian Revolution
He has also written a brief, accessible biography of Du Bois for Pluto Press’s Revolutionary Lives Series, W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (2016)[15]
In 2019, Mullen published a full-length biography of James Baldwin titled James Baldwin: Living in Fire. The book drew upon previously unexamined archival materials and was favorably reviewed by The Guardian newspaper[16]
In 2024, Mullen published We Charge Genocide! Fordham University Press published American Fascism and the Rule of Law. The book shows how the law and bourgeois legality have enabled fascist organizing, fascist thought, and fascist governmentality. The book predicts much of the Trump administration’s use of the law to support reactionary, authoritarian, and fascist ideology[17]
Also in 2024, he co-authored with Jeanelle Hope[18] The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books). [19] The book is the first comprehensive history of Black Antifascism and argues that “anti-Blackness” is essential to all fascist ideology
He is currently working on two authored book projects: From Beneath the Grassroots: The Work and World of Alice Childress, a co-authored book with dramaturg Arminda Thomas [20]on the Black feminist and radical playwright and activist Alice Childress, and The Black Antifascist Reader with Jeanelle Hope[21] for AK Press
Mullen has edited or co-edited six other books, including A U.S. Antifascism Reader, co-edited with Christopher Vials[22], published with Verso Books in the year 2020; [23]
Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections Between African Americans and Asian Americans, co-edited with Fred Ho (Duke University Press, 2008);[24]
W.E.B. Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line, a collection of Du Bois’s writings on Asia co-edited with Cathryn Watson[25] [26]
Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism and Modern Literatures of the United States, co-edited with James Smethurst (University of North Carolina Press, John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, 2003.[27]
Nomination
[edit]He was nominated for the Robert Motherwell Book Award, Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture[28] ,co-edited with Sherry Lee Linkon [29]
Publication
[edit]Mullen has published reviews and political essays in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Kirkus Reviews, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, Against the Current, New Politics, puntoorojo, Rebel, and many other publications.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V Mullen review – a smart, concise introduction". The Guardian. 14 November 2019.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (2024). We Charge Genocide!: American Fascism and the Rule of Law. Fordham University Press. ISBN 9781531508463.
- ^ "US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel". USACBI.
- ^ "AAUP Local 6741 (AFT)". American Association of University Professors. AAUP. 30 November 2023.
- ^ "Coalition for Action in Higher Education". Coalition for Action in Higher Education (CAHE). CAHE.
- ^ "Day of Action for Higher Education". Day of Action for Higher Education. DAHE.
- ^ "United States Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)". USACBI.
- ^ Dawson, Mullen, Ashley, Bill V. (2015). Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities. Haymarket Books. ISBN 9781608465262.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Palestine Writes Literature Festival". palestinewrites. PWLF.
- ^ "Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG)". palestinewrites. WAWOG.
- ^ "Socialist Horizon". Socialist Horizon.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (1999). Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politicss. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09801-7.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (2004). Afro-Orientalism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816637492.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (2015). Un-American: W.E.B.Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution. Temple University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvrdf2sr. ISBN 9781439911099. JSTOR j.ctvrdf2sr.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (2016). Revolutionary Lives Series, W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745335056.
- ^ "James Baldwin:Living in Fire by Bill V Mullen review – a smart, concise introduction". The Guardian. 14 November 2019.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V (2024). We Charge Genocide! American Fascism and the Rule of Law. Fordham University Press. ISBN 9781531508456.
- ^ "Jeanelle Hope". Jeanelle Hope.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (2024). The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition. Haymarket Books. ISBN 9798888901335.
- ^ "Arminda Thomas(Princeton Humanities Council)". Princton Faculty. Princeton University.
- ^ "Jeanelle Hope". Jeanelle Hope.
- ^ "Christopher Vials". University of Connecticut. 19 January 2020.
- ^ Mullen,Vials, Bill V,Christopher (2020). A U.S. Antifascism Reader. Verso Books. ISBN 9781788733502.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Mullen,Ho, Bill V.Free (2008). Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections Between African Americans and Asian Americans. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8117-4.
- ^ "Cathryn Watson (The University of Iowa)". USACBI. The University of Iowa.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (2005). Crossing the World Color Line, a collection of Du Bois's writings on Asia. University of Mississippi Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09801-7.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (2003). Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism and Modern Literatures of the United States. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0807827991.
- ^ Mullen, Bill V. (1996). Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978025202206-7.
- ^ "Sherry Lee Linkon". GeorgeTown University.