Cameron Leader-Picone
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in African and African-American Studies, 2009, Harvard University
Email: cleader@ksu.edu
Office: EH 004
Phone: (785) 532-3854
Field of interest:
Contemporary African American Literature, The African American Literary Tradition, Postmodern Literature, African American Popular Culture, 20th Century American Literature, Popular Fiction.
Cameron Leader-Picone received his Ph.D. in African and African American Studies from
Harvard University in 2009. He has taught in the Harvard Writing Program and at Ithaca
College. He is currently working on a book on contemporary African American Literature
and the representation of racial identity. The book examines the meaning of African
American literature in the context of public discourses on post-racialism, colorblindness,
and multiculturalism.