James Baldwin: America and Beyond

Contributors

Contributors kevin birmingham is a Lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard. His dissertation, “The One-Drop Aesthetic,” considers Baldwin as part of a Faulknerian strand in U.S. literature that includes Thomas Pynchon and Gloria Anzaldúa. His article about Baldwin’s relationship to the South appears in African American Review, and he is currently writing a book about the ‹ght to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses, forthcoming with Penguin Press. douglas field is senior lecturer in contemporary literature at Staffordshire University. He has published articles on African American literature and culture in Callaloo, Literature and Theology, Genre, and the Guardian. He is the editor of American Cold War Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and A Historical Guide to James Baldwin (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is the author of James Baldwin (Northcote Press, 2011) in the series Writers and Their Work, and he is writing a monograph on James Baldwin that explores the writer’s political and religious work. kevin gaines is director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is author of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) and Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics and Culture during the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Book Prize of the American Studies Association in 1997. He was elected president of the American Studies Association in 2008. briallen hopper received her PhD from Princeton in 2010 and is a lecturer in English at Yale. She has studied religion at Yale as a Class of 1952 247 Scholar and Samuel Slie Fellow. She has taught classes at Princeton, Boston University, Southern Methodist University, and Yale, and has published essays on Frederick Douglass and on post-Katrina New Orleans in Hollywood ‹lm. She is working on a manuscript on the ethics of political emotion entitled “Feeling Right in American Reform Culture.” cora kaplan has held chairs of English at Rutgers University and at the University of Southampton, and has recently been visiting professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a feminist critic with a speci‹c interest in race and class. Her books include Genders (with David Glover) (Routledge, 2009) and Victoriana—Histories, Fictions, Criticism (Edinburgh and Columbia, 2007). d. quentin miller is associate professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston. He is the author of John Updike and the Cold War (University of Missouri Press, 2001) and has edited Re-Viewing James Baldwin (Temple University Press, 2000) and Prose and Cons: New Essays on Contemporary U.S. Prison Literature (McFarland, 2005). He is also one of the editors of the Heath Anthology of American Literature and of two composition textbooks, The Generation of Ideas (Heinle, 2004) and Connections (Houghton Mif›in, 2008). His articles have appeared in many journals, including American Literature, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Legacy, American Literary Realism, and the Hemingway Review, and in a variety of books and reference volumes. He is currently completing a manuscript on James Baldwin in the context of the law. vaughn rasberry completed his PhD in the Department of English at the University of Chicago in 2009. After spending a year as a Fulbright lecturer at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, he is now an assistant professor in the Department of English and Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. robert reid-pharr is Presidential Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His latest book is Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York University Press, 2007). bill schwarz teaches in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. The ‹rst part of his three-volume Memories of Empire is due out shortly from Oxford University Press. Most recently he has edited Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace 248 Contributors (Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2008) and, with Susannah Radstone , Mapping Memory (Fordham University Press, 2010). george shulman teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University . His second book is American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). hortense spillers is Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Black, White...