Professor of English Abdul JanMohamed's work explores the politics of literature and the nature of discourse in both colonial and post-colonial cultures. His most recent book, The Death-Bound Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death, explores various ways in which the threat of death (lynching in Jim Crow society) was instrumental in forming the subjectivity of slaves. Professor JanMohamed argues that in their writing, Wright and other African American authors have articulated a profoundly anti-Hegelian understanding of the master-slave struggle. His book also charts the nature of the resistance to the threat/fear of death that is central to slave's challenge of the master. The book has been reviewed as a new account of slavery, reworking the concept of "social death" and articulating a "dialectic of death" in a provocative manner. Among his other accomplishments, Professor JanMohamed is founding editor of the journal Cultural Critique and the co-editor of The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse.