His first book, Things Not Seen: Race, Religion, and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology (forthcoming from NYU Press), examines the concept of race as an ‘invisible theology’ in a secular age. His work has appeared (or shall appear) in African American Review, Biblical Interpretation, The Journal of Africana Religions, The Journal of Religion, and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Other research and teaching interests include Nat Turner, Zora Neale Hurston, the concept of irony, American vernacular music, and the prospect of homiletics for cultural criticism. Harriss’s next book is tentatively titled The Fighter Who Wouldn’t Fight: Muhammad Ali and American Religion. He received his Ph.D. from the Religion and Literature program at the University of Chicago Divinity School.