Joel Black

Joel Black is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Black has written extensively on subfields of literature and film studies areas such as romanticism, postmodernism, philosophy and history of science, and cultural studies. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture and The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative (2002).

Career Education and awards In 1972, Black completed his B.A. at Columbia College of Columbia University, and then one year later he finished his M.A. in English Literature, also at Columbia University. In the 1976-77 school year, Black won a fellowship called the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienststipendium, and in 1979, he won a Fellowship at the School of Criticism and Theory at the University of California at Irvine). In 1979, Black completed his Ph.D. in comparative literature at Stanford University.

In the 1982-83 school term, Black won an NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, and in 1989, he won a Fulbright Travel Grant. In 1990, 1992, 1994–96, and 1998, Black won University of Georgia Faculty Research Grants, and in 1997, Black received the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship.

Research and Teaching In 1978-79, Black was an assistant professor of comparative literature at Hamilton College in New York state. From 1979 to 1982, Black was an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1983 to 1986, he was an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia.

In 1986, Black was promoted to associate professor at the University of Georgia. In 1986 and 1989, Black was a UGA Exchange Professor at Universitaire, Instelling Antwerpen, Antwerp, in Belgium. In 1990, Black was a visiting professor at Emory University. In 2003, Black was promoted to professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia.