David MarriottCharles T. Winship Professor of Philosophy

• Faculty, Cave Canem Summer Retreat (2022)
• Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Critical Poetics University of Sussex (2014)
• Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship - Black Poetry and Knowledge (2009-2010)
• Institute of Humanities Research: Research Fellowship, Spring Quarter (2009)
• Institute for Humanities Research: Research Fellowship, fall quarter (2004)
• Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2002-03)
• Recipient of Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Leave Scheme (1998-99)

• Robin Lee Poetry Competition, Runner-up (1986)

Books

• Bluetown (Omnidawn, 2023, in press)
• N'est Pas: Writing, Art, Politics (Standford UP, in press)
• Before Whiteness (City Lights, 2022) 
• Lacan Noir: Lacan in Black Studies. Palgrave Lacan Series. (2020)
• Duppies. (Commune Editions, 2019)
• Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being (Stanford University Press, Cultural Memory of the Present, 2018)
• Duppies (London: London Materials, 2017) 
• In-Neuter (Equipage: Cambridge, 2012) 
• The Bloods (Exeter, Shearsman Books, 2011)
• Hoodoo Voodoo (London, Shearsman Books, 2008)
• Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2007)
• Incognegro (Cambridge, Salt Publications, 2006)
• On Black Men, (Edinburgh and New York, Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press, 2000)

Edited Books 

• Psychoanalysis and Poetics, eds. David Marriott and Vicky Lebeau  (London, Fragmente, 1998)

Selected Poems, Chapters, & Essays

• "Bluetown", "When the Last Nests Are Empty", "Homecoming", in Second Stutter (San Francisco, 2019)
• "Black Sunlight", The Penguin Book of the Prose (London, Penguin, 2018) 
• "In Memory of the Rascal"; "Eskimo (after Wiley)".  From London Out: An Anthology of Contemporary English Poetry. (2017)
• "The Garden". For the Future. Poems & Essays in Honour of J.H. Prynne (London, Shearsman Books, 2016) 
• "The Bunker".  Best American Experimental Writing. (Wesleyan University Press, 2016)
• "The Racialized Body", The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• "Black Critical and Cultural Theory" in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (2015)
• "The Figure of Crusoe" in Modernism and Masculinities (Cambridge UP, 2014) 
• 'The Redeemers', The Best British Poetry (Salt Publications, 2013)
• 'Out of Bounds'. British Black & Asian Poets. (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)
• "No Second Chances," Queer Times, Queer Becomings (SUNY Press, 2011)
• 'Identity Parade'. New British & Irish Poets. (Bloodaxe Books, 2010). ("The Day Ena Died"; "Tap"; "Over the Black Mountains") 
• "Otello--An Intimate Study of Envy", Giuseppe Verdi, Otello (Salzburg, Salzburger Festspiele, 2008)
• 'Veil, No. 2', Complicities. British Poetry 1945-2007 (Literraria Pragensia, Prague, 2007)
• "Of Movement Towards a Natural Place," For J.H. Prynne: In Celebration (Barque Press, 2006)
• "En Moi," Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, "Texts in Culture" series, (Manchester University Press, 2005)
• "Signs Taken for Signifiers: Language Writing, Fetishisms, and Disavowal," Assembling Alternatives: Essays On/Against Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
• "The Derived Life of Fiction: Race, Childhood, and Culture," Hating in the First Person Plural (New York, Other Press, 2003)
• "How did Nietzsche get in the Nursery?," Where Id Was: Challenging Normalisation in Psychoanalysis (London, Athlone Press, 2001)
• "Border Anxieties," Comparing Postcolonial Literatures (London, Macmillan, 2000)
• "A Dialectics of the Real," The Recovery of the Public World (Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1999)
• "In Memory of Absent Fathers: Black Paternity and Social Spectatorship," Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires (London, Taylor & Francis, 1998)
• "Bonding Over Phobia," The Psychoanalysis of Race (New York, Columbia University Press, 1998)
• "Aspects of Ousia and Transitive Verb Form in Fenollosa's The Chinese Written Character and Pound's Cantos," Language and the Subject (New York, Rodopi, 1997)
• "Figures of Silence and Orality in the Poetry of M. Nourbese-Philip," Framing the Word: Gender and Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing (London, Whiting and Birch, 1996)
• "Reading Black Masculinities," Understanding Masculinities: Social Relations and Cultural Arenas (Open University Press, 1996)

Selected Articles

• "Sacrifices", Diacritics. Special issue: Rethinking Black Resistance (2021)
• "Nègre, Figura", Textual Practice. Special issue on Style (2021)
• "Forming 969, and Other Epiphanies". Chicago Review Special Issue on Marxism and Avant-Garde Poetry (2020)
• "On Crystallization", Critical Times (2020)
• "Blackness: N'est Pas?", Propter Nos (2020)
• "The becoming-black of the world", Radical Philosophy. Series 2 (2018)
• "The X of Representation: Rereading Stuart Hall". Qui Parle. (2018)
• "The Perfect Beauty of Black Death". Los Angeles Review of Books. The Philosophical Salon (2017) 
• "On Decadence: Bling Bling". Eflux. Special Issue: 'As the World Falls Apart..' (2017)
• "Making Nothing Happen". The Capilano Review.  (Summer, 2017)
• 'Judging Fanon', Rhizomes 29, Special Issue, "Black Holes: Afro-Pessimism, blackness and the discourses of Modernity." (2016)
• "Corpsing; or the Matter of Black Life". Cultural Critique. Special Issue: "The State of Things" (2016)
• "Making Nothing Happen". The Future of Literary Thinking. Special Issue of Textual Practice. (2016)
• 'Bastard Allegories: Black British Independent Cinema', Black Camera, special issue on Fugitivity and Cinema. (2015)
• "The Ocular Truth": C.L.R. James's England', Critical Quarterly (2015)
• 'On Racial Etiquette: Adrian Piper's My Calling Cards', Postmodern Culture (2013)
• 'Inventions of Existence: Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and the "Damned"',  The New Centennial Review (2013)
• "Waiting to Fall", The New Centennial Review (2013)
• "On Racial Fetishism," Qui Parle (2010)
• "The Love of Neither-Either: Racial Integration in Pressure Point," Qui Parle (2003)
• "The Derived Life of Fiction," New Formations (2001)
• "The Rites of Difficulty," Fragmente (1997)
• "Bordering On: the Black Penis," Textual Practice (1996)
• "Contemporary British Poetries and Resistance," Parataxis: Modernism and Modern Writing (1996)
• "Signs Taken for Signifiers: Language, Fetishism, and Disavowal," Fragmente (1995)
• "A Note on Olson's Projective Prosody," Parataxis: Modernism and Modern Writing (1994)