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Jon-Christian Suggs
Faculty Profile

Ph.D. University of Kansas
Professor of English, Ph.D. Program in English, Graduate Center, and Department of English, John Jay College;
Chair, Department of English, John Jay College

Selected Publications:

  • “Marching! Marching! and the Idea of the Proletarian Novel.” The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction. Ed. Janet Galligani Casey. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2004.

  • Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life. Law, Meaning, and Violence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

  • American Proletarian Culture: The Twenties and the Thirties. Vol. XI, Dictionary of Literary Biography Document Series. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1993.

  • "Iron City: Race and Revolutionary Romanticism Behind Bars." Legal Studies Forum. 25, 3&4(2001): 449-58.

  • "'Blackjack': Walter White and Modernism in an Unknown Boxing Novel." Michigan Quarterly Review. 38, 4(Fall 1999): 515-40.

  • "Romanticism, Law, and the Suppression of African-American Citizenship." Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism. Ed. Reynolds J. Scott-Childress. New York: Garland, 1999. 67-95.

  • "Adam's Ribs: Get 'em While They're Hot!" Picturing Justice. http://www.usfca.edu/pj/articles/TimetoKillAdamsRib.htm

 

 

  

PhD Program in English
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