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Edited edition of Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper)’s recently recovered ca. 1846 book of poems, _Forest Leaves_. Published through the Just Teach One: Early African American Print project, with an introduction by the coeditors.

The following is a response delivered at the end of the Critical Infrastructure Studies Panel, which took place at the January 2018 Modern Language Association Conference in New York City. This response argues that the call for critical infrastructure studies can ultimately help us mobilize a critically informed resistance to capital and set of…[Read more]

“Taking a liberal approach to the category “African American children’s literature,” I stipulate that the placement and framing of stories in an African American literary context such as the Christian Recorder suggest that they ought to be considered among “African American children’s literature” insomuch as they were read by or to African Ameri…[Read more]