Nero, Charles I.
- Professor
- 207-786-6415
- Pettigrew Hall, Room 303
- cnero@bates.edu
Professor Nero specializes in Film, Literary and Cultural Studies.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to African American Studies http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/AAS/IntroAfAmStudies.htm
- African American Oratory and Public Address http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/rhetoric/AfAmPublicAddress.htm
- White Redemption: Cinema & the Cooptation of African American History http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/rhetoric/WhiteRedemption.htm
- Place, Word, Sound: New Orleans http://abacus.bates.edu/~cnero/neworleans.html
- Black Lesbian and Gay Literatures
- The Whitelands: Cinematic Nightmares
- Language and Communication of Black Americans
- Seminar in the Harlem Renaissance
- Film and the Critical Gay Gaze
- Lesbian and Gay Images in Film
- Makin’ Whoopi: Goldberg’s Canon
- Rhetorical Theory
- Sexuality in the Era of AIDS
- Hate, the State and Representation
- Intercultural Communication
- Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement
Education
- Ph.D. Speech Communication Indiana University, Bloomington, May 1991. Dissertation: “To Develop Our Manhood”: Free Black Leadership and the Rhetoric of the New Orleans Tribune, 1865-1870
- M.A. Speech Communication Wake Forest University, May 1980
- B.A. Theater Education Xavier University, New Orleans, May 1978
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Professor of Rhetoric, African American Studies, and American Cultural Studies,Bates College, August 1991- Present
- Assistant Professor of Speech Communication. Ithaca College, August 1987- May 1990
- Instructor, Speech Communication, Valdosta State College, Valdosta, GA, August 1980 – May 1981
- Associate Instructor, Afro-American Studies, Indiana University, 1983 – 1987
Professional Organizations
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- College Language Association
- National Communication Association
- Langston Hughes Society
- Modern Language Association
- American Studies Association
Areas of Teaching Interest
- 19th and 20th Century African American Literature
- American Film
- African American Studies
- African American Film
- African American Oratory