GerShun AvilezNew to the Tenth Edition, GerShun Avilez (Ph.D. Pennsylvania; coeditor, 1945 to the Present) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Ntionalism, winner of the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, and of Black Queer Freedom. Avilez, whose research areas are African American/African diaspora, contemporary American literature, and LGBTQ studies, has taught at Yale University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Read More Read Less