Biography

Cyrus Hampton is trained as an African-Americanist, specializing in post-1940s African American literature and Black Speculative fiction, but he has a broad range of research interests, reaching from pop-culture and game studies to the material realities of writing education and writing as a practice. He currently serves at Howard University as a full-time, non-tenure track, faculty member and as the Assistant Director of the First Year Writing Program. Professor Hampton received a BA in English at Howard University in 2006, he received an MA in English at New York University in 2011, and he did graduate work at the PhD level at the Ohio State University from 2011 to 2016. He has a forthcoming fiction project exploring race, gender, war, medical apartheid in the United States, and the general struggle by human beings to understand their bodies individually and scientifically.

Professor Hampton is also a proud SEIU Local 500 member, a board member for the Ida B. Wells Education Project, and a faculty advisor for two student organizations: Howard University Gaming Society (HUGS) and VOCAL.