Leonard Curry is a writer, teacher, and scholar who specializes in Christian social ethics, with a specific interest in interdisciplinary, de-disciplined, and undisciplined approaches to African American moral, social, and political thought. He has written on the operations of shame in the life of Bayard Rustin, the affective and political economies delimiting the accessibility to and intelligibility of black religious women’s anger, and on the necessity for intersectional approaches in the constitution of disability theology. Professor Curry is deeply invested in the hope for personal and collective liberation.
Research interests
Dr. Curry’s research interests are in the ongoing effects of the transatlantic slave trade; the formation of racial identities and practices of identification; affect and emotion; gender, sex, and sexuality; black religion(s) and black Christianities; and the rhetoric of struggle.
Selected publications
“Problems of Feeling: Affect, Violence, and Practice in Black American Life,” (2023, unpublished doctoral dissertation).
