Tara T. GreenTara T. Green is CLASS Distinguished Professor and Chair of African American Studies at the University of Houston, where she teaches literature and Black women's studies courses. She is the author of Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Reistance in Literature, Television, and Song (2018), A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men (2009), and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure during the Interwar Era (2022), and she is the editor of two books, including From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature (2008). She is from the New Orleans area. Read More Read Less