Justin A Joyce

A founding editor of James Baldwin Review, Justin A. Joyce’s writings on Baldwin have also appeared in A Historical Guide to James Baldwin (2009), and James Baldwin in Context (2019).
Joyce’s first monograph, Gunslinging Justice: The American Culture of Gun Violence in Westerns and The Law (2018), examines the relationship between cinematic form and American law, and Anglo American masculinity. The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (2014), and the journals Western American Literature, Public Seminar, The International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior, Ord & Bild, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Callaloo, and Great Plains Quarterly. At CRE2, Joyce is co-convener of the Race & Ethnicity Study Group.

With Dwight A. McBride, he is the editor of A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader (2006), a special issue of the journal Public Seminar entitled “Teaching While Black,” and two posthumous volumes: Vincent Woodard’s Lambda Literary Award-winning book, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism in U.S. Slave Narratives (2014), and Lindon Barrett’s Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (2014).