Background
Rampersad, Arnold was born on November 13, 1941 in Trinidad, West Indies.
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Rampersad, Arnold was born on November 13, 1941 in Trinidad, West Indies.
Bachelor, Bowling Green State University. Master of Arts, Bowling Green State University. Master of Arts, Harvard University.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University.
Rampersad is currently Professor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. He was Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities from January 2004 to August 2006. Since then he taught there and at Columbia and Princeton before returning to Stanford in 1998.
Rampersad graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor's degree and master's degree in English. He earned a Ph.D from Harvard University. His teaching covers such areas as 19th- and 20th-century American literature.
The literature of the American South. American and African-American autobiography. Race and American literature.
And the Harlem Renaissance. From 1991 to 1996, he held a MacArthur "genius grant" fellowship. In 2007, he published a biography of Ralph Ellison (1914–1994).
In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal., and in 2012 was the recipient of the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization. He is also the half-brother of Roger Toussaint, the president of Transport Workers Union Local 100.
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Professor Rampersad was a member of the Stanford English Department from 1974 to 1983, before accepting a position at Rutgers University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.