Walton Muyumba

Walton Muyumba is an essayist and critic. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Believer, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Review of Books, and Oxford American, among other outlets. Muyumba is also the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism (Chicago UP, 2009). He is the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Bloomington, where he teaches creative nonfiction and literary studies.