John S Wright

Contact Me

wrigh003@umn.edu

Affiliations

• English
• African American & African Studies

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: American Studies, University of Minnesota, 1977.
• M.A.: English and American Literature, University of Minnesota.
• B.E.E.: Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota.

Specialties

• 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

Courses Taught

• EngL 8590 - The Harlem Renaissance
• EngL 5130 - Readings in American Minority Literature
• EngL 8300 - Seminar in American Minority Literature

Publications

• Shadowing Ralph Ellison. Wright, John, University Press of Mississippi, Author, 2006. Link
• Intellectual Life, [African American]: Wright, John, Macmillan Publishing Co., The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 3 1369-90, 1995.
• Alain Locke: Wright, John, Macmillan Publishing Co., The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 3 1341-43, 1995.
• Out of the Fog: the Black Renaissance: Wright, John, The Guthrie Program Magazine, 1995.
• A Photoplate for the Padre: Wright, John, Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, 13.4 , 1995.
• A Scintillating Send-Off for Falling Stars: The Back Renaissance: Wright, John, A Stronger Soul Within A Finer Frame, 1990.
• "Sterling Brown's Folk Odyssey." . Wright, John, University of California Press, Author, 1990.