Rocking the Academy

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Lavelle

It was a pleasure to speak with Roopika Risam and Mary Churchill, co-hosts of the Rocking the Academy podcast, to discuss The Blackademic Life, academic novels, and the current state of higher education.

In Search of Samuel R. Delany

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Lavelle

I have a new review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books on two recently published books by Chip Delany: In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) and Voyage, Orestes! (Bamberger Books, 2019).

“In Search of Samuel R. Delany”

Return to The Nostalgia Trap

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Lavelle

I recently dialed in to the podcast The Nostalgia Trap to discuss my new book The Blackademic Life, the state of academia, and many other topics. I was a guest on the podcast way back in 2014, so it was great to catch up with my CUNY Graduate Center colleague David Parsons and chop it up about life on the other side of graduate school.

Nostalgia Trap – Episode 175 – The Blackademic Life w/ Lavelle Porter

Theorizing the Black Intellectual

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Lavelle

I’m grateful to the crew at Warscapes for publishing “Theorizing the Black Intellectual,” an excerpt from The Blackademic Life, courtesy of Northwestern University Press.