Series Editors
John Ernest, the Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, is the author of over 45 essays and author or editor of thirteen books, including Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (2004), Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History (2009), The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (2014), and Race in American Literature and Culture (2022).
Stephanie Li is professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She has published seven books including the award-winning, Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women (2010) as well as Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama (2011), Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects (2015), and Signifyin(g) Immigrants: Twenty-First Century Pan-African American Literature (2018). She has also written two short biographies of Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston. Her most recent book from the University of Minnesota Press is entitled Ugly White People: Whiteness in Contemporary American Literature. She is the editor of Volume E of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 11th edition and the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Series, “Race in US Literature and Culture.” She has co-edited several special issues of American Literary History and Black Camera.