Carter Mathes

Carter Mathes is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University specializing in African American Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and African Diaspora Studies. He is currently writing a book titled Imagine the Sound: Experimental Form in Post-Civil Rights African American Literature, examining sound's role in social transformation and literary innovation (1960s-1980s). He co-edits a volume on Black Arts Movement figure Larry Neal and plans a project on 20th-century black radical thought exchange between Jamaica and the U.S.

His research explores intersections of race, literature, and cultural movements. Active in academic networks, he serves on the Rutgers Committee on New Directions in Caribbean Studies. Though no formal awards are listed, his work demonstrates scholarly contribution to post-civil rights era literary analysis and diasporic intellectual networks.