Rafia ZafarRAFIA ZAFAR is a professor of English, African and African American studies, and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also serves as faculty director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program. Her previos publications include We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760–1870 and the Library of America’s two-volume anthology Harlem Renaissance Fiction. Read More Read Less