The Contributors

John Ernest, the Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University, is author of Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature (1995) and Liberation Historiography (2004). His edition of Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown is forthcoming in 2008.

Neil Schmitz teaches American literature and Civil War Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo.

Ryan Jay Friedman is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is working on a book entitled Negro Talking Pictures: African American Migration and Musical Performance in Early American Sound Film.

James Fairfield is a Ph.D. candidate in African American Literature at the University of Kentucky. He is working on his dissertation on the connections between lynching and redemption in twentieth-century American Literature.

Rashna Wadia Richards is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at SUNY Brockport. Her work has appeared in Framework and Criticism. She is completing a book on rethinking cinephilia as a critical approach to Classic Hollywood cinema.

Todd F. Tietchen is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Modern Contemporary American Literature and Culture at South Dakota State University. He is at work on a book under contract, The Cubalogues: On the Beat Generation and Revolutionary Havana.