Dr. Tricia Rose- Bio

Tricia Rose is an Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at New York University.  She specializes in 20th century culture and politics, social thought, popular culture and gender issues.  A native New Yorker, she received her B.A. in Sociology from Yale University in 1984 and completed her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1993.  She is the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America  (Wesleyan Press, 1994) and co-editor, with Andrew Ross, of Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture  (Routledge, 1994). Black Noise, which made the Village Voice's top 25 books of 1994, was awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995.

She lectures frequently to scholarly and general audiences on a wide range of topics relating to American cultural politics, black culture and music and gender. She has given lectures and presented papers abroad and at schools and research centers in the U.S. such as: Wesleyan, Harvard, Morehouse, The Whitney Museum of Art, UCLA, Spelman, Middlebury, Yale, Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, The Brooklyn Museum, University of California at San Diego, at Irvine, at Santa Barbara and Princeton University.  Rose has been featured as an expert commentator on national radio and television and in articles appearing in magazines such as Time, Essence, George, The New York Times, The Village Voice as well as numerous other newspapers and magazines.

Her essays on race, culture and politics, black popular music and black women’s issues have appeared in several edited book collections and in a wide range of journals and magazines including: Artforum, Bookforum, The Village Voice, Vibe Magazine, Women's Review of Books, Camera Obscura, Social Text and  Boston Book Review.

She is currently working on completing a project on black women’s sexuality in America. Drawing extensively on in-depth interviews as well as historically significant events, this project examines the complex social forces that shape the politics of race, gender and intimacy in American society.