John S. Wright
Professor
Departments of English & African American and
African Studies
Ph.D. American Studies, University of Minnesota, 1977
812 Social Science
(612) 624-9847
wrigh003@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English; African American and African Studies
Areas of Expertise
American and Afro-American literature, intellectual history, and popular culture; folklore and oral tradition; sociology of literature; feminist criticism; Harlem Renaissance; Black arts movement; Langston Hughes
Selected Publications
Shadowing Ralph Ellison. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006.
"Intellectual Life, [African American]." The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, v. 3. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1995.
"Alain Locke." The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, v. 3. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1995.
"Out of the Fog: the Black Renaissance in Retrospect." The Guthrie Program Magazine, (Summer 1995).
"A Photoplate for the Padre." Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 13.4 (Fall 1990).
"A Scintillating Send-Off for Falling Stars: The Back Renaissance Reconsidered." Catalog essay for A Stronger Soul Within A Finer Frame. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Art Museum, 1990.
"Sterling Brown's Folk Odyssey." In American Literature,
Culture, and Ideology. Ed. B. Voloshin. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1990.
Graduate Courses
The Harlem Renaissance
Undergraduate Courses
Readings in American Minority Literature
Seminar in American Minority Literature