Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.

Frederick Douglass Associate Professor of African American Literature and Culture, Director

University of Rochester, Department of English, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies

Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr., PhD, is the author of the award-winning book Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing (University of Chicago Press, 2014). He is the co-editor of the Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital (University of Illinois Press, 2019). He is presently completing a book project, Disobedient Reading: An Experiment in Seeing Black (University of California Press. He has published in a variety of journals and also serves on the editorial board of numerous journals. He is the co-editor of the University of California Press’s New Sexual Worlds book series. For his work at the intersections, of race gender, and sexuality, McCune has been featured on Left of Black, Sirius XM's Joe Madison Show, HuffPost Live, NPR, Pitchfork and as a guest expert on Bill Nye Saves The World. In July 2021, he assumed the role as the Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute of African and African American Studies.