Dr Daniel Matlin
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 2010-12
Location: Arts Two 2.04email: d.p.matlin@qmul.ac.uk
Daniel Matlin joined the School of History in September 2010 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. He was previously an undergraduate, graduate student and Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and Director of Studies at the Centre for History and Economics at King’s College, Cambridge.
Research interests:
His research has focused on twentieth-century African-American intellectual and cultural history. His current project, entitled ‘Harlem: An Intellectual History,’ is a study of the changing significance of place and institutions in intellectual life and explores the relationship between Harlem’s intellectual history and its iconic status as the world’s most renowned black urban community. His doctoral research examined debates about black urban life among African-American intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s, in particular the psychologist Kenneth B. Clark, the poet, playwright and black power activist Amiri Baraka and the painter and collagist Romare Bearden. He has also worked on the history of jazz.
Publications:
‘“Lift Up Yr Self!” Reinterpreting Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Power, and the Uplift Tradition,’ Journal of American History 93:1 (2006): 91-116
‘Blues Under Siege: Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and the Idea of America,’ in The Cold War in Pieces: Exploring the Boundaries of Postwar American History, ed. Joel Isaac and Duncan Bell (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)