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. In 2005, he received the Quantrell Award.
Publications
Books
- Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time (w/Adolph Reed Jr.). Routledge (2025),
- What Was African American Literature? (Harvard, 2010)
- So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (Chicago, 2003)
- Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Chicago, 1993)
Editor
- Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Material and Ideological Foundations of African America Thought (w/Adolph Reed Jr.) Routledge (2010)
- Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Georgia, 2013)
References