Rich Blint

Rich Blint is a scholar, writer, and curator who holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. He is co-editor of a special issue of African American Review on James Baldwin, and wrote the introduction and notes for Baldwin for Our Times: Writings from James Baldwin for a Time of Sorrow and Struggle (Beacon Press). He is co-editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and upcoming books include A Radical Interiority: James Baldwin and the Personified Self in Modern American Culture, and Duppy Umbrella and Other Stories. His writing has appeared in Bomb Magazine, African American Review, James Baldwin Review, Anthropology Now, The Believer, McSweeney's, The Brooklyn Rail, sx visualities, and the A-Line: a journal of progressive thought where he serves as editor-at-large. He serves on the Executive Board of African American Review, and is a contributing editor to James Baldwin Review. Blint was the 2016-2017 Scholar-in-Residence in the MFA Program in Performance and Performance Studies at Pratt Institute, and a 2017-2018 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Experimental Humanities at New York University.

He has presented and been interviewed on a range of topics on outlets including The New York Times. Time, The Brian Lehrer Show,  CSPAN, ALL OF IT with Alison Stewart, and BBC's The Forum, and the long-running Great Lives with Ruth Rogers, among others.