Ashon Crawley

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Ashon T. Crawley is an American scholar of religion and author. He is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) on aesthetics and performance as modes of social imagination,[1][2][3][4] and The Lonely Letters, an epistolary, semi-autobiographical work on love, blackness, mysticism, and quantum theory (Duke University Press, 2020).[5][6] The Lonely Letters won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the Believer Book Award for nonfiction, with the citation saying the “book captures the nature of longing like few other works do.”[7][8] Crawley is working on a third book (working title Made Instrument) about the Hammond Organ’s historical role in the Black Church and social life.[9]

Crawley studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a BA in 2003, then an MTS from Emory University in 2007.[10] He completed his PhD at Duke University in 2013.[10]

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  1. ^ Scott, Mikana (2017-07-01). "Book Review: Blackpentecostal breath: The aesthetics of possibility". Journal of Black Studies. 48 (5): 528–531. doi:10.1177/0021934717706973. ISSN 0021-9347. Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  2. ^ Shelley, Braxton (2020-02-29). "Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility". Yale Journal of Music & Religion. 5 (2). doi:10.17132/2377-231X.1183. ISSN 2377-231X. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  3. ^ Félix-Jäger, Steven (2017-01-01). "Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, written by Ashon T. Crawley". Pneuma. 39 (3): 391–394. doi:10.1163/15700747-03903007. ISSN 0272-0965. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  4. ^ Johnson, Jasmine (2017). "Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon Crawley (review)". Dance Research Journal. 49 (2): 109–111. ISSN 1940-509X.
  5. ^ Chevan, Jesse (Spring 2020). "View of Crawley, Ashon. 2020. The Lonely Letters. Durham: Duke University Press. | Current Musicology". Current Musicology. 106. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  6. ^ Pak, Yumi (2020). "The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley (review)". American Studies. 59 (2): 57–58. doi:10.1353/ams.2020.0017. ISSN 2153-6856. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  7. ^ "2021 Winners". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  8. ^ "2020 Believer Book Award Winners and Finalists". Believer Magazine. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  9. ^ "| Department of Religious Studies". religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu. University of Virginia. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "Ashon Thomas Crawley • Faculty Directory". facultydirectory.virginia.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-05-18.

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