Balthazar I. Beckett holds a PhD from the City University of New York, Graduate Center. In addition to UC Berkeley, Balthazar has taught writing and literature at the American University in Cairo, San Francisco State University, Mount Tamalpais College at San Quentin State Prison, the Royal University of Bhutan, as well as Brooklyn and Queens Colleges in New York City, among other universities.
His work has appeared in The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North (eds. Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis, NYU Press, 2019), as well as in MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), Callaloo, South Atlantic Review, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, International Journal of Human Rights Education, Poverty and Race, Small Axe/sxsalon, Social Text Online, Kritikon Litterarum, African American National Biography, and Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (Oxford University Press), for which he also served as guest editor. He has won awards for his writing, teaching, and research.
