Robin G. Vander is associate professor in the Department of English at Xavier University. She is coeditor of Percival Everett: Writing Other/Wise and Perspectives on Percival Everett (the latter published by University Press of Mississippi). She is coeditor of two issues of the Xavier Review: “Celebrating Jesmyn Ward: Critical Readings and Scholarly Responses” and “Reading the Intersections of Sex and Spirit in the Creative Arts.” Her article “The African American Population in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina” appears in The Review of Black Political Economy.
