The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for
a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary)

Erica R. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her work on African American literature, politics, and gender critique has appeared in Callaloo, American Quarterly, American Literary History, and Women and Performance. She is currently at work on a book project titled The Other Side of Terror: African American Literature after 9/11.