Kenneth W. Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. His publications include What Was African American Literature? (Harvard, 2011); So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (Chicago, 2003); and Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Chicago, 1993). He is co-editor (with Tess Chakalakkal) of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Georgia, 2013) and (with Adolph Reed Jr.) of Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought (Paradigm, 2009).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Why We Don’t Need Another Hero (Film): Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation”
Kenneth W. Warren on the problems of Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation."...
Reconsidering Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. A Symposium, Part II
A symposium on Claudia Rankine's "Citizen: An American Lyric."...
You Tell Me It’s the Institution: Creative Writing and Literary History
Kenneth W. Warren discusses "The Program Era."...
