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 

Curriculum Vitae

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