Ashon Crawley

Ashon Crawley is a doctoral student in English at Duke University. His dissertation in progress, tentatively titled “Historicity and Black Studies: The Aesthetics of Black Pentecostalism” is an extension and critique of the disciplining of, in and as “black studies,” focusing on aesthetics, performance and sexuality as a social force with which institutional black studies must contend. He has published work in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, The Journal of Theology and Sexuality, Black Theology: An International Journal and in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.