Jack Shuler

Jack Shuler is John and Christine Warner professor and associate professor of English at Denison University where he teaches American literature, Black Studies, and narrative non-fiction writing. He holds a Ph.D. in English (Graduate Center – CUNY, 2007) and an MFA in Poetry (Brooklyn College, 2001).

He is the author of Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights (Mississippi University Press, 2009), Blood and Bone: Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town (University of South Carolina Press, 2012), The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose (PublicAffairs, 2014), This is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America (Counterpoint, 2020), and Midland: Reports from Flyover Country (Tiller/Simon and Schuster), 2020.

Shuler’s writing has appeared in The New Republic, Pacific Standard, The Atlantic, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Truthout, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Journal of Southern History, Columbia Journal of American Studies, Hanging Loose, and Failbetter, among others.

He has been on HuffPost Live and on WNPR, WOSU, KERA, and Pacifica radio stations.

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