Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Departmentof English at Boston University. He earned his A.B. inEnglish from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in Englishfrom Brown University. Jarrett is the author of Representing theRace: A New Political History of African American Literature(2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in AfricanAmerican Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor ofseveral volumes and collections of African American literature andliterary criticism. He is the recipient of fellowships from theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National FellowshipFoundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study atHarvard University. Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois, Chicago Michele Elam, Stanford University Philip Gould, Brown University George B. Hutchinson, Cornell University Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin,Madison James Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts,Amherst Werner Sollors, Harvard University John Stauffer, Harvard University Jeffrey Allen Tucker, University of Rochester Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University