Kimberly BenstonKimberly W. Benston is Francis B. Gummere Professor of English at Haverford College, where he has also served as director of the Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities, provost, and the fifteenth president, and from which he receivedthe Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. His books include Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask and Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism. He is editor of Imamu Amiri Baraka: A Collection of Critical Essays, Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison, Larry Neal: Essays, the “Performance” Special Issue of PMLA, and the “Black Arts Movement” section of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Read More Read Less