jwatts@gc.cuny.edu 

Ph.D., Yale University.
Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY. English.

Selected Publications:

• Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

• Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Reflections on Ralph Ellison, Politics and Afro-American Intellectual Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

PhD Program in English
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