Eric Sundquist is an American scholar of the literature and culture of the United States.
Sundquist earned his B.A. from the University of Kansas (1974) and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1978). He is the UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature and a member of the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005)
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993), winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association for best book published during the year, the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for the best book in the humanities, and the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.
Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1978)
Faulkner: The House Divided (1983), The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction (1992)