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Jacob Sloan is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Howard University, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. He is also a PhD candidate (ABD) in English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where he previously taught literature and writing courses.
- Ph.D. (ABD), English, University at Buffalo, SUNY
- M.A., English, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 2019
- B.A., English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2016
His research centers on Marxist literary criticism and the global proletarian realist novel, with a comparative approach that spans Korea, South Africa, Palestine, and the United States. He investigates how proletarian realism challenges mechanistic Marxism and offers a dynamic, anti-oppressive framework for class struggle. His interests include 19th- and 20th-century African American literature—especially Harriet Wilson, Frances Harper, Richard Wright, and Ann Petry—feminist theory, social reproduction theory, and resistance writing.
His recent publications analyze Fredric Jameson’s legacy, the spatial dialectics of capitalist city and countryside in Kang Kyŏng-ae and Peter Abrahams, and the centrality of anti-racism and gender struggle in proletarian narratives. His articles have appeared in Socialism and Democracy and Mediations, and he has presented at the Historical Materialism Conference and the Marxist Literary Group.
- Destined More for Use in the Night School than the Graduate Seminar: Fredric Jameson and Marxist Literary Criticism (2025)
- Country and City in the Proletarian Realist Novel (2020)
- "Secular" Stagnation: Literary Realism, Proletarian Narrative, and Capital's Everyday Violence (2023)
- The Centrality of Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist, and Anti-Oppression Struggles (2022)
- Lutie Johnson, Racist Naturalist? Ann Petry, Realist Novelist (2022)
- "This Is Our Earth. Or—It Must One Day Be" (2021)
Jacob Sloan is an active member of the Howard University Non-Tenure Track Faculty Union and teaches four or more courses per semester. His work consistently emphasizes the necessity of grounding Marxist theory in lived struggles against racism, imperialism, and gendered violence, advocating for a bottom-up, dialectical approach to revolutionary praxis.
