Jordan Alexander Stein

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.

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....

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COMICS

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....

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LITERARY CRITICISM

GENDER & SEXUALITY

An African American Life?

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

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LITERARY CRITICISM

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

After the Great American Novel

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LITERARY CRITICISM

You Better Work; or, How to Tell Friends from Faux: On "RuPaul's Drag Race"

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