Arnold Rampersad was born on 13 November 1941 and is a biographer, literary critic, and academic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965.
10 Facts About Arnold Rampersad
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Arnold Rampersad was Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities from January 2004 to August 2006.
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Arnold Rampersad graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor's degree and master's degree in English.
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Arnold Rampersad was a member of the Stanford University English Department from 1974 to 1983, before accepting a position at Rutgers University.
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Arnold Rampersad's teaching covers such areas as 19th- and 20th-century American literature; the literature of the American South; American and African-American autobiography; race and American literature; and the Harlem Renaissance.
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Arnold Rampersad's published books include biographical works on W E B Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Arthur Ashe, Jackie Robinson, Ralph Ellison, as well as edited volumes of writings by Richard Wright.
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From 1991 to 1996, Arnold Rampersad held a MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellowship.
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Arnold Rampersad is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.
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In 2010, Arnold Rampersad was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and in 2012 was the recipient of the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization.
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Arnold Rampersad is the half-brother of Roger Toussaint, the president of Transport Workers Union Local 100.