Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Associated Faculty in African American Studies. In 2006, she was named Emory University Scholar/Teacher of the Year. She is a former director of the Women’s Studies department and was honored by the Emory Women’s Center as special guest at Telling Our Stories. She has authored or edited more than a dozen books and numerous articles including Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley, A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances E. W. Harper Reader, Minnie’s Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watson Harper, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (co-edited with Nellie Y. McKay). Professor Foster is an editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Her current research centers around Feminist Sexual Ethics, Antebellum African American Families and Religion, and personal narratives by women of color.

Other Publications:

“Til Death – Or Distance Do Us Part.” New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 2009).

“The Personal is Political, the Past Has Potential, and Other Thoughts on Studying Women’s Literature – Then and Now.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 26.1(Spring 2007): 29-38.

“‘Hurry Up, Please, It’s Time,” Said the White Rabbit as S/he Followed Bre’r Rabbit into the Briar Patch.” Legacy 24.2(2007): 322-330.

La Familia En Africa Y La Diaspora Africana: Estudio multidisciplinar/Family in Africa and the African Diaspora: A Multidisciplinary Approach . Salamanca: Almar-Anglistica, 2004. Edited with Olga Barrios.