Department of English

Faculty Information

Prof. John Gruesser (cont.)

Publications:

Books

• Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic, Athens: U of Georgia P, 2005
• (Ed.) The Black Sleuth, by John Edward Bruce, Boston: Northeastern UP, 2002
• Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa, Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000
• (Ed.) The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Intro. Nellie Y. McKay, Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996
• White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa, Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992

Periodicals

• African American Review
• American Drama
• Black American Literature Forum
• CEA Critic
• College English Notes
• Edgar Allan Poe Review
• The Explicator
• Journal of African Travel-Writing
• Journal of Caribbean Literatures
• Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies
• Mid-American Review
• Nerter
• Studies in Short Fiction

Books Edited by Others

• American Studies and Peace
• The Companion to African Literatures
• Complexions of Race: The African Atlantic
• The Curious Writer
• Images of Africa: Myth and Reality
• Modes of the Fantastic
• Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder from the "Other" Side
• New Readings in American Drama: Something’s Happening Here
• The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
• “Polar Noir”: Reading African American Detective Fiction