Deborah E. McDowell is the Alice Griffin Professor of Literary Studies and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. Her publications include ‘The Changing Same’: Studies in Fiction by African-American Women, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin, as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and scholarly editions. She was founding editor of the African-American Women Writers Series for Beacon Press and was a contributing editor for the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature and the D. C. Heath Anthology of American Literature, and is co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery and the Literary Imagination.
