title: Kenneth W. Warren
text: # 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.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Books
  
  * 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 (Paradigm, 2010)
  * Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Georgia, 2013)
  