John Wright

Educational Background

• B.E.E.: Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, - none
• M.A.: English and American Literature, University of Minnesota, - none
• Ph.D.: American Studies, University of Minnesota, 1977 - none

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