Adam McGee is the Arts Editor and Managing Editor of Boston Review. He previously was Acting Managing Editor and Editorial Assistant for Transition, the celebrated journal of black arts and letters. He also served as Associate Editor for Special Exhibitions at the Harvard Art Museums. He is an independent scholar and publishing poet.
Adam earned his Ph.D. in African and African American Studies from Harvard University. His dissertation, entitled Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture, examined how pop culture representations of voodoo help to perpetuate racism. Emphasizing film and television, as well as literature and cultural ephemera, Adam argued that voodoo serves as an outlet for the expression of white anxieties about the presence of black people in the Americas. An interdisciplinary work, it builds productive intersections between cultural studies, religious studies, and gender and sexuality studies.
In addition to his cultural studies work, Adam has written extensively about the religious practices and beliefs of Haitian Vodou. Adam has been published in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and The Journal of Haitian Studies. His work will soon appear in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth.
Adam has taught religious and cultural studies and cultural anthropology at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Northeastern University. In addition, he was on the Graduate Tutorial Board for the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. He holds a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and an Honors B.A. in English from the University of Delaware.
Adam earned his Ph.D. in African and African American Studies from Harvard University. His dissertation, entitled Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture, examined how pop culture representations of voodoo help to perpetuate racism. Emphasizing film and television, as well as literature and cultural ephemera, Adam argued that voodoo serves as an outlet for the expression of white anxieties about the presence of black people in the Americas. An interdisciplinary work, it builds productive intersections between cultural studies, religious studies, and gender and sexuality studies.
In addition to his cultural studies work, Adam has written extensively about the religious practices and beliefs of Haitian Vodou. Adam has been published in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and The Journal of Haitian Studies. His work will soon appear in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth.
Adam has taught religious and cultural studies and cultural anthropology at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Northeastern University. In addition, he was on the Graduate Tutorial Board for the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. He holds a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and an Honors B.A. in English from the University of Delaware.
