New York University

Michael D. Dinwiddie's teaching interests include cultural studies, African American theatre history, dramatic writing, filmmaking, and ragtime music. A dramatist whose works have been produced in New York, regional, and educational theatre, he has been playwright-in-residence at Michigan State University and St. Louis University and taught writing courses at the College of New Rochelle, Florida A&M University, SUNY Stony Brook, California State University at San Bernardino, and Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He spent a year at Touchstone Pictures as a Walt Disney Fellow and worked as a staff writer on ABC-TV's Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. In 1994 he was a Sundance finalist, and in 1995, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting. A Gallatin graduate, Professor Dinwiddie earned his M.F.A. in dramatic writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. His course offerings include "Migration and American Culture"; "Dramatizing History" (I and II); "Poets in Protest: Footsteps to Hip-Hop"; "James Reese Europe and American Music"; "Sissle, Blake, and the Minstrel Tradition"; "Guerrilla Screenwriting"; "Motown Matrix: Race, Gender, and Class Identity in 'The Sound of Young America'"; and the study abroad course "Culture, Art, and Politics in 21st-Century Buenos Aires." Professor Dinwiddie received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.