Charles Norton

Contact Charles Norton

843-349-6689 cnorton@coastal.edu

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Fall 2023 Office Hours
Tuesdays/Thursdays 12:00 - 1:30pm

Biography

Charles Norton is a linguist, interdisciplinary scholar, and Hip Hop teaching artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in Aesthetics from Université Paris Nanterre and an MA in French & Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Most recently he was a Visiting Professor at Morehouse College. He has also taught full-time at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and the University of Paris. Norton’s research investigates human rights and empowerment in global Hip Hop cultures, and he has extensive experience working internationally, including three tours of service with the US Peace Corps (Cameroon, Haiti, and Rwanda) and a stint as a Faculty Research Adviser at the University of Rwanda’s Gikondo campus’s Center for Language Enhancement.

Education

Ph.D., Aesthetics; Université Paris Nanterre, 2020
M.A., French & Anthropology; University of Arizona, 2015
B.A., Caribbean Culture & World Literature; Indiana University—Bloomington, 2005

Teaching Areas

Interdisciplinary Studies, Visual & Performing Arts, Art History, Linguistics, Anthropology, Africana & African Diaspora Studies, French, English

Research Areas

Hip Hop Based Education, Marxist historiography, engaged Art History, language ideologies, human rights