R. Clifford Jones is an associate professor at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. He is the editor of Preaching with Power and has authored scholarly articles on the emergence of the Sabbath-Day ...

Bart Beaty is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. His work has been published in the Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, Canadian Journal of ...

Conseula Francis is associate professor of English and director of African American studies at the College of Charleston. Her work has been published in the Langston Hughes Review.

Jean-Paul Gabilliet is professor of American studies at the University of Bordeaux, France.

Nick Nguyen is an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Celebrated in media and myth, New Orleans's French Quarter (Vieux Carré) was the original settlement of what became the city of New Orleans. In Madame Vieux Carré, Scott S. Ellis presents the social ...

Trystan T. Cotten is assistant professor of African American studies at California State University, Stanislaus. With Christa Davis Acampora, Cotten edited Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, ...

Kimberly Springer is senior lecturer in American studies at King's College, London. She is the author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 and editor of Still Lifting, ...

Scott S. Ellis is an independent researcher in Panama City, Florida.

Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) gained national attention upon release of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection of poems, in 1992, when a critic for the New York Times Book Review called him “one ...