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Kenneth Warren is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. His scholarship and teaching focus on American and African American literature from the late nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. His books include Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Chicago, 1993) and So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (Chicago, 2003).
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