Cassander L. Smith is professor of English and associate dean for academic affairs of the Honors College at the University of Alabama. Her research emphasizes representations of people of African descent in early Atlantic literatures. She is the author of five books, including two monographs, Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic (LSU Press, 2023) and Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World (LSU Press, 2016). She is the co-editor for the journal Early American Literature and the associate editor for Cambridge's 17-volume series African American Literature in Transition.
Sponsored by the Council on African Studies and the Program in Early Modern Studies
