office: 312 Tate phone: 573-882-0664 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. web: www.prahladspace.com office hours: TR 10:00-12:00 Research and teaching areas: contemporary poetry, folkloristics, and culture studies of the African Diaspora

Anand Prahlad teaches creative writing, folklore, Africana literature, and film studies. He specializes in contemporary poetry, folkloristics, and culture studies of the African Diaspora. His research and creative interests include poetry of the body, the convergence of popular and classical forms, the proverb and speech performances, and theories of race and gender. He is the author of Hear My Story and Other Poems and has published widely in American poetry journals. In addition to his poems, he has published two critical books, African American Proverbs in Context (University Press of Mississippi, 1996) and Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music (University Press of Mississippi, 2001), and numerous articles on topics in folkloristics, literature and culure studies.

Education

PhD 1991, University of California, Los Angeles

Selected Publications

• Anand Prahlad, As Good As Mango, poems, (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2012).
• Anand Prahlad. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (Three Volumes) (Greenwood Press, 2005) www.amazon.com
• Anand Prahlad. "Africana Folklore: History and Challenges." Journal of American Folklore 118.469 (2005): 253-270
• Anand Prahlad. "Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir." Journal of American Folklore 118:467 (2005): 21-44
• Anand Prahlad. "The Proverb and Fetishism in American Advertisements." What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life Ed. Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2004. 127-151
• Anand Prahlad. "'You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth': Proverbial Expressions, Feminist Perspectives, and the Fetish in the Work of Janet Davidson-Hues." Journal of American Folklore 117:463 (2004): 22-54
• Sw. Anand Prahlad. Reggae Widsom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music (University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

Courses Taught

• English 4700/7700: Black Folk Philosophy.
• English 4700/7700: Folklore and Popular Culture
• English 4700/7700: Black Folk Narrative Motifs in Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Film
• English 4700/7700: Motifs in African American Folklore
• English 4700/7700: The Rhetoric of Roots Reggae
• English 4700/7700: Folklore and Race
• English 2009: The City in Black Film
• English 2009: Black Filmmakers
• English 4530/7530: Advance Poetry: The Poetics of Breath
• English 4700/7700: Folk Culture in Film
• English 8700: Folklore and the Fetish
• English 8700: The History of Folklore Studies: A Postcolonial Critique
• English 8700: The Politics of Folk Humor
• English 8700: The Proverb