FACULTY AND STAFF: Meet Andrew B. Leiter

Assistant Professor of English Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.A,. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill B.A., University of Alabama
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.
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