David J. Leonard
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
David J. Leonard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman.
He has written on sport, video games, film, and social movements, appearing in both popular and academic mediums. His work explores the political economy of popular culture, examining the interplay between racism, state violence, and popular representations through contextual, textual, and subtextual analysis. He is the author of Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema and the forthcoming After Artest: Race and the War on Hoop (SUNY Press). Leonard is a regular contributor to NewBlackMan <http://newblackman.blogspot.com/> and blogs @ No Tsuris.
<http://notsuris.wordpress.com/>. You can follow him on twitter @Dr_DJL
Contact Dr. Leonard
djl@wsu.edu
509-335-6854
Wilson-Short 117
Office Hours
TTH: 12:00-1:00 PM
and by appointment
Course Materials
Fall 2011
Past Syllabi