John Wright

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• BEE: Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
• MA: English and American Literature, University of Minnesota
• PhD: American Studies, University of Minnesota, 1977

Specialties

• sociology of literature
• American and Afro-American literature
• Black Arts Movement
• feminist criticism
• folklore and oral tradition
• Harlem Renaissance
• intellectual history and popular culture
• Langston Hughes

Publications

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Publications

• Intellectual Life, [African American]: Macmillan Publishing Co., Wright, John, The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 3, 1369-90, 1995.
• Alain Locke: Macmillan Publishing Co., Wright, John, The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 3, 1341-43, 1995.
• Shadowing Ralph Ellison. University Press of Mississippi, Wright, John, 2006.
• 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." . University of California Press, Wright, John, 1990.

Courses

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Courses

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