Reading the Renaissance: Black Women's Literary Reception and Taste in Chicago, 1932-1953 - Mary I. Unger

Mary I. Unger is an associate professor of English at Ripon College, where she is also the director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her writing has appeared in Reception, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), Legacy, and most recently in A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States, edited by Gary Totten. Her work on race, gender, and reading has received several awards, including ones by MELUS and the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.