Joshua Laurence CohenJ. Laurence Cohen is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in English from Emory University. His book, Excavating Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literatur, shows how Moses evolved from an icon of race loyalty to an avatar of authoritarianism. He is the author of "Exodus and Typological Plasticity in Delany, Melville, and Stowe" published in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture and "Shining Inward: The Blind Seer, Fanny Crosby, and Education for the Blind" published in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Read More Read Less