Jordan Alexander Stein teaches in the English Department at Fordham University. He is co-editor of Early African American Print Culture (U Penn Press, 2012) and a contributing writer at Avidly.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Present Waver: On “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts”
Jordan Alexander Stein reviews "Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts" by Rebecca Hall and illustrated by Hugo Martínez....
History’s Dick Jokes: On Melville and Hawthorne
The issue, then, is whether serious scholars writing about famous authors — Melville and Hawthorne — can reasonably deign to take dick jokes as evidence....
An African American Life?
“However magesterially this biography conventionalizes Brown’s life, it does so at some potential cost to Brown’s anomalousness.”...
After the Great American Novel
What do English professors do with literature? And what might the next era of literary scholarship look like?...
You Better Work; or, How to Tell Friends from Faux: On "RuPaul's Drag Race"
Gender performance and the politics of pretend in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'...
