Kenneth W. Warren is an American academic and author. He is a professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is a scholar of American and African American literature from the late 19th century to the middle 20th century.[1] In 2005, he received the Quantrell Award.[2]

Publications

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Books

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  • Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time (w/Adolph Reed Jr.). Routledge (2025), ISBN 978-1-003-56994-7
  • What Was African American Literature? (Harvard, 2010)[3][4]
  • So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (Chicago, 2003)[5]
  • Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Chicago, 1993)[6]

Editor

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  • Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Material and Ideological Foundations of African America Thought (w/Adolph Reed Jr.) Routledge (2010)[7]
  • Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Georgia, 2013)[8]

References

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  1. "Kenneth Warren | Department of English Language and Literature". english.uchicago.edu.
  2. "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching". UChicago.
  3. "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. June 13, 2011.
  4. Ross, Marlon B. (June 11, 2012). "Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?: A Review Essay". Callaloo. 35 (3): 604–612. doi:10.1353/cal.2012.0098. S2CID 161233784 via Project MUSE.
  5. Staub, Michael E. (2005). "Reviewed work: So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism, Kenneth W. Warren". South Atlantic Review. 70 (4): 166–169. JSTOR 20064699.
  6. Kinnamon, Keneth (1997). "Reviewed work: Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism, Kenneth W. Warren". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 96 (1): 150–152. JSTOR 27711474.
  7. Carson, Jack (September 1, 2012). "Some Black American Intellectual History, 1880–2000". Journal of African American Studies. 16 (3): 588–591. doi:10.1007/s12111-011-9198-6. S2CID 140814095 via Springer Link.
  8. Warren, Kenneth W. "Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs". Library Journal.