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Arthur Knight

Chair - Associate Professor of English

Office Hours: Monday 2-3, Tuesday 11:30-1, and by appointment (Fall 2025)
Email: iaknig@wm.edu

Areas of Specialization

African Americans and U.S. cinema (and popular and mass cultures more generally), film and music reception studies

Books

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Knight, Arthur. Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film. Durham: Duke UP, 2002.

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Knight, Arthur, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik, eds. Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music. Durham: Duke UP, 2001.

Background

B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago

CV [pdf]