Calvin Baker
professor
A.B. English, Amherst College, 1994 Magna cum laude, with highest honors in the major
Office: Palamountain 307
Phone: (518) 580-5165
Email: cbaker1@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- fiction
- nonfiction
- The Black Atlantic
Courses Taught:
- EN 281: Intro to Fiction Writing
- EN 380: Fiction Workshop
- EN 381F: Adv. Projects in Writing Fiction
Publications:
Novels
- Revolution: One World Books, Penguin Random House, forthcoming
- Grace: Gallery Books | Simon & Schuster, 2015
- Dominion: Grove Press, 2006; reprint, 2007
- Once Two Heroes: Viking, 2003; Penguin, 2004
- Naming the New World: A Wyatt Book for St. Martin’s Press, 1997 (German, Norwegian, and Dutch translations in 1998)
Nonfiction
- A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America: Nation Books | Hachette, (June) 2020
- Gayle Jones in Retrospect, The Atlantic Monthly, 2020
- Genius: a History of Africans in America: Amistad Press | HarperCollins, forthcoming
- Calvin Baker on David Blight’s Frederick Douglass, Book Post, 2019
- Derek Walcott: The Lives They Lived, New York Times Magazine, 2017
- Profile of Hollywood Producer Charles King, New York Times Magazine, 2017
- The Presidency of Obama, Harper’s Magazine, 2017
- Colorblind: A Pocket Guide to Race in America, Matter Magazine, 2015
- Toward a Desegregated Literature, Literary Hub, 2015
- Notes for a Spanish Odyssey: A European Tale of Migration and Identity, Amazon Singles, 2014
Adaptations:
Trapeze, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola and piano, M. Epstein. San Francisco Symphony, 1999