Department of English
Site Contents
James Saunders
Professor, Department of English
| Education: | Ph.D, University of Michigan, 1986; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1978 |
| Office: | HEAV 330B |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-63390 |
| Email: | |
| Specializations: | African American literature; contemporary African American authors; American popular culture |
James Robert Saunders is the author of The Wayward Preacher in the Literature of African American Women (McFarland, 1995) and Tightrope Walk: Identity, Survival and the Corporate World in African American Literature (McFarland, 1997). He is also the co-author of Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture on Vinegar Hill (1998) and the co-editor of The Dorothy West Martha’s Vineyard: Stories, Essays and Reminiscences by Dorothy West Writing in the Vineyard Gazette (2001). His essays have appeared in MELUS, Southern Literary Journal, Hollins Critic, Langston Hughes Review, and Journal of the Short Story in English. He regularly teaches a variety of African American literature courses, and his current research interests include contemporary African American authors and American popular culture.