Kenneth W. Warren specializes in 19th- and 20th-century American and African American literature. The author of Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (University of Chicago Press, 1993), So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and What Was African American Literature? (Harvard University Press, 2010), Warren has also edited and written an introduction to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for the Norton Library (2022). He is co-editor of Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Material and Intellectual Foundations of African American Thought (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009). Warren is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.