Dr. Frank Dobson

 

Frank E. Dobson, Jr., Ph.D. is director of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center and Faculty Head of House of Gillette House at Vanderbilt University. He has published fiction and nonfiction as well as in African American literature and culture. In addition to his work at Vanderbilt University, he also teaches at Fisk University. He spends his creative energies focused on "enlightening the world through stories of transformation and hope."

Dobson’s publications include: The Race is Not Given (novel), published 1999 by Sterling House; “Homeless M.F.,” (short fiction), published in 1996, in Warpland; “Junior Ain’t,” (short fiction), published in 2005, in the anthology Proverbs for the People; Introduction to the Barnes and Noble edition of Folks from Dixie, by Paul Laurence Dunbar (2008); review of Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature, by John Young, in Studies in American Naturalism, Summer 2007; "Beyond the Limits: Reflections of A Black Working Class Academic," (essay) in Public Voices, Spring, 2002. His newest novel, Rendered Invisible, was released in summer, 2010 (Plain View Press).

Dobson has also won awards for his writing, including the Bessie Head/Zora Neale Hurston Fiction Writers Award from Chicago State University, and Artist's Fellowship for his fiction from the Montgomery County Regional Arts and Cultural District in Ohio.