About Henry
Born September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia. Earned a BA from Yale University and MA and PhD from Clare College, Cambridge. Currently the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Has worked at Yale, Cornell, and Duke universities. A literary theorist who combines deconstruction with African literary traditions and has published on African-American literature and its place in the Western canon.
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- Literary criticism and theory
- African-American literature and studies
- Discovery of early African-American novels
- Genealogy and ancestry research
- Television documentaries on history and genealogy
- Hosting Finding Your Roots
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