Jordan Alexander Stein

Articles

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  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.

  Jordan Alexander SteinSep 17, 2021

  • Comics

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  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.

  Jordan Alexander SteinDec 15, 2015

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Literary Criticism

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  An African American Life?

  “However magesterially this biography conventionalizes Brown’s life, it does so at some potential cost to Brown’s anomalousness.”

  Jordan Alexander SteinFeb 12, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Literary Criticism

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  After the Great American Novel

  What do English professors do with literature? And what might the next era of literary scholarship look like?

  Jordan Alexander SteinMay 1, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  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'

  Jordan Alexander SteinJan 28, 2013