Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of theDepartment of English at Boston University. He earned hisA.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. inEnglish from Brown University. Jarrett is the author ofRepresenting the Race: A New Political History of AfricanAmerican Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race andRealism in African American Literature (2007), and the editoror co-editor of several volumes and collections of African Americanliterature and literary criticism. He is the recipient offellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the WoodrowWilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institutefor Advanced Study at Harvard 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