Kenneth W. Warren

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)