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Joshua Bennett

Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016) and Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. Winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Ford Foundation. His writing has been published in American Poetry ReviewThe New York Times, Poetry and elsewhere. He is currently a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.

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