Stephanie Brown, Columbus, Ohio, is assistant professor of English at Ohio State University and the coeditor (with Eva Tettenborn) of Engaging Tradition, Making It New: Essays on Teaching Recent African American Fiction. Her work has appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Mosaic, Paradoxa, and Studies in Popular Culture.
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