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contriBUtors roBert BUtler is professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he teaches American, African American, and modern literature. He is the author of Native Son: The Emergence of a New Black Hero (1995), The Critical Response to Richard Wright (1995), Contemporary African American Literature: The Open Journey (1998), and The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison (2001). He has coauthored with Jerry Ward Jr. The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (2008), as well as two books with Yoshinobu Hakutani, The City in African American Literature (1995) and The Critical Response in Japan to African American Writers (2003. roBert h. cataliotti, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Humanities at Coppin State University in Baltimore, where he teaches American and African American literature. Winner of a 1983 ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, he has written two books: The Music in African American Fiction (Garland, 1995) and The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African American Fiction, 1970–2007 (Peter Lang, 2007). He produced and annotated the CD that accompanies Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition and the Smithsonian Folkways compact discs Classic Sounds of New Orleans; On My Journey: Paul Robeson’s Independent Recordings, and Every Tone A Testimony : An African American Aural History, and annotated A Voice Ringing O’er the Gale! The Oratory of Frederick Douglass. MaryeMMa grahaM is a professor of English at the University of Kansas and founder/director of the Project on the History of Black Writing. She has published extensively on American and African American literature and culture and has directed numerous national and international workshops and institutes on literature, literary history, criticism, and pedagogy. Her most recent books include Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker (2001) and Conversations with Margaret Walker (2002). She is currently completing the authorized biography of Walker. 508 • contriBUtors JaMesc.hall is director of New College at the University of Alabama, and author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African American Culture and the American Sixties (Oxford, 2001) and editor of Approaches to Teaching the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MLA, 1999). dr. JaMes l. hill is professor of English and chair of the Department of English , Modern Languages and Mass Communication at Albany State University, Georgia. In his professional affiliations, Professor Hill has served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, NCTE College Section and the Georgia Humanities Council; and he has published in a number of journals and other publications, including the Oxford Companion to African American Literature, African American Review, Journal of Negro History, Forum on Public Policy, and Resources for American Literary Study. A former dean of Arts and Sciences and assistant vice president for Academic Affairs at his university , Professor Hill was selected as a 2008 Visiting Fellow for the Twentieth Anniversary Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England. Michael d. hill is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa. With his wife, Lena Hill, he has cowritten Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”: A Reference Guide (2008). He has also completed “Toni Morrison and the Post-Civil Rights African American Novel,” a chapter for The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011). His research interests include twentieth-century African American fiction , contemporary black culture (especially hip-hop), and the drama of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks. Currently, he is working on The Ethics of Swagger, a book about prize-winning African American novels between 1977 and 1993. laWrence Jackson is professor of English and African American Studies. Professor Jackson earned his PhD at Stanford University in 1997 and he began his teaching career at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He joined Emory’s faculty in 2002, the year his biography, Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, was published. His most recent book is called The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934–1960 (Princeton, 2010). His forthcoming books include From the Staunton to the Dan: Slavery, the Civil War and an Afro-Virginian Family and a biography of Chester Himes. dr. angelene JaMison-hall is professor emerita of Africana Studies in A&S College at the University of Cincinnati. Having taught courses in the Black Cultural Studies concentration, she specialized in twentieth-century African American women’s literature, and published in such collections as World Literature Criticism , 1500 to the Present (ed. James P. Draper, Gale Research, Inc.), Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints (eds. Burress, Karolides, and Kean), Critical Essays [3.236.228.65] Project MUSE (2024-03-19...