Andrew B. Leiter did his undergraduate work at the University of Alabama, and he received his M.A and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a twentieth century American literature specialist with particular interest in the textual intersections of racial representations by white and African American authors. His essay, "Sexual Degeneracy and the Anti-Lynching Tradition in Erskine Caldwell's Trouble in July," will appear in Reading Erskine Caldwell: New Essays (2005). His current research project is a study of mob violence in relation to black masculinity as imagined by various authors of the Harlem and Southern Renaissances.