Deborah E McDowellDeborah E. McDowell (Ph.D. Purdue) is the Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery of the Literary Imaginatio; author of "The Changing Same" Studies in Fiction by Black Women; Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; editor of Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun, Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, and numerous articles and essays. Read More Read Less