Kenneth A. McClane
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- Cornell University
M.F.A. - Cornell University
M.A. - Cornell University
B.A.
Bio
Ken McClane, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature, teaches creative writing and African American Literature. He has published a number of poetry books and a collection of personal essays. A new book, Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History will appear in 2009. Interested in how writing fosters agency, McClane plans to start a non-fiction publishing series, focusing on the works of the disenfranchised.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Creative writing, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction
- African American literature
- Political writing
Current Projects
- Essays
- A meditation on the work of Romare Bearden