 Tricia Rose, Ph.D.
Professor of Africana Studies
Brown University
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Tricia Rose is a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. She specializes in 20th century African-American culture and politics, social thought, popular culture and gender issues.
A native New Yorker, she received her B.A. in Sociology from Yale University in 1984 and completed her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1993.
Her oral narrative project on black women's sexuality in America entitled Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy is the first oral history of black women's sexual testimonies. Their stories dispel prevailing myths and provide revealing insights into how black women navigate the complex terrain of sexuality.
She is also the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Wesleyan Press, 1994) and co-editor, with Andrew Ross, of Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (Routledge, 1994). Black Noise, which made the Village Voice's top 25 books of 1994, was awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995.
She lectures frequently to scholarly and general audiences on a wide range of topics relating to American cultural politics, black culture and music and gender. She has given lectures and presented papers abroad and at schools and research centers in the U.S. such as: Wesleyan, Harvard, Morehouse, The Whitney Museum of Art, UCLA, Spelman, Middlebury, Yale, Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, The Brooklyn Museum, University of California at San Diego, at Irvine, at Santa Barbara and Princeton University. Rose has also been featured as an expert commentator on NPR and other national radio outlets, on television and in articles appearing in magazines and newspapers such as Time, Essence, The New York Times and The Village Voice.
Her essays on American culture and politics, black popular music & sexism and black women's issues have appeared in several edited book collections and a wide range of journals and magazines including: Essence, Vibe Magazine, Artforum, Bookforum, The Village Voice, Women's Review of Books and Boston Book Review.
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