Associate Professor
Focus: Africana Studies and Spatial Theory
Contact Information
(518) 694-7359
kevin.hickey@acphs.edu
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EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in English, State University of New York at Albany
- Recipient of 1999 Presidential Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award of the University at Albany
- M.A. in English, State University of New York College at Oneonta.
- B.Sc. in Biology (pre-med), State University of Vermont
COURSES TAUGHT AT ACPHS
- Principles of Communication
- Humanities I: Ancient Times to the Renaissance
- Humanities II: The Renaissance to the 19th Century
- Humanities III: The 19th Century to the Present
- Humanities 201: The Contemporary World
- Health Care and Human Values
- The Drama
- Travel in Literature and Image
- African American Literature and Music
- Caribbean Literature and Music
- African Literature, Film, and Music
- Culture and Customs of Senegal
- Culture, Customs, & Health of Belize
- Global Health
- Nature and Wellness
- Race and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- My research is on spatialities in Africana literatures, visual arts, and music with focuses on travel, gender, food culture, ecology and ecophilosophies, birds, and Illichean conviviality.
NOTEWORTHY
- Annual ACPHS Africana Film Series Coordinator
- "Four Years: Crossing Africa by Bike" (photo slideshow with music)
- Annual Pharm.D. Rotation in Basel, Switzerland Coordinator
- Study Abroad Course in Senegal Professor
- Medical Mission to Belize Professor
- New York African Studies Association Immediate-Past-President
- Editor (Guest) of “Sahara and Identity” issue of CELAAN (The Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa / Revue du Centre d’Études des Littératures et des Arts d’Afrique du Nord). 2016-2018. Volume XV #2-3, Fall 2018.
- Editor of The New York African Studies Association Newsletter.
- External Reviewer for U.S. State Department Youth Leadership Program with Francophone Africa
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Cartographic Africas.” The NYASA Newsletter “Global Systems” issue 73 (Spring-Summer 2020): 51-67.
“Basquiat’s Birds: Painting an Afro-Global Space.” Transnational Trills: Music and Art in the Africana World. Ed. Cheryl Sterling. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019. 305-345. Print.
“Sahara and Identity.” CELAAN (The Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa / Revue du Centre d’Études des Littératures et des Arts d’Afrique du Nord) Vol 15.2-3 (Fall 2018): 8-30. Print.
“Desert Paths.” CELAAN (The Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa / Revue du Centre d’Études des Littératures et des Arts d’Afrique du Nord) Vol 15.2-3 (Fall 2018): 241-249. Print.
“Sandstorm.” CELAAN (The Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa / Revue du Centre d’Études des Littératures et des Arts d’Afrique du Nord) Vol 15.2-3 (Fall 2018): 250-263. Print.
“Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 14.3 (September 2012): 477-479. Print.
“Africa and Travel Writing.” New Directions in Travel Writing and Travel Studies (Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies Series). Carmen Andras, editor. Aachen: Shaker Publishing GmbH, 2010. 103-118. Print.
“`Exiles Must Make Their Own Maps’: Space, Teleology, and Derek Walcott.” International Journal of the Humanities. Vol. 6.7 (2008), 85-96. Print.
“Furrowing Africa’s Killing Fields.” The International Journal of the Humanities. Vol. 4.5 (2006), 101-109. Print.
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS IN:
Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Updated. Africa World Press.
Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics.
Twentieth-Century American Cultural Theorists. Dictionary of Literary Biography.
New York African Studies Association Newsletter.
Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Greenwood Press.
The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. Fitzroy Dearborn
Encyclopedia of African American History. ABC-CLIO Press.
Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Fitzroy Dearborn.
UCFV Research Review.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature.
Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. ABC-CLIO Press.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Communications Technologies in Education.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature.
The Vanguard.
Travel Publications in:
Bicycling
Cyclist
Bicycle Guide
Badische Zeitung
Schweizer Jugend
Press & Sun Bulletin
HONORS, AWARDS, AND APPOINTMENTS
Editor of “Sahara and Identity” issue of CELAAN (The Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa / Revue du Centre d’Études des Littératures et des Arts d’Afrique du Nord). 2016-2018. Volume XV #2-3, Fall 2018.
President of New York African Studies Association.
Editor of The New York African Studies Association Newsletter.