University of Chicago Professor Discusses Politics and African-American Literature at UMass Amherst

AMHERST, Mass. – Kenneth Warren, professor of English literature at the University of Chicago, will speak on “Reflections on Politics and African American Literature” on Thursday, April 4 from 4-6 p.m. in 904-08 Campus Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

 

The Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Warren is the author of three monographs: “What Was African American Literature?,” “So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism” and “Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism.” He is co-editor with Adolph Reed, Jr. of “Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought” and with Tess Chakkalakal of a forthcoming volume of essays, “Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs,” to be published by the University of Georgia Press.

 

The lecture is supported by the UMass Amherst Center for Teaching and Faculty Development’s Mutual Mentoring Initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.