Tessa RoynonTessa Roynon is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, where she teaches American and world literature. Internationally renowned for her work on Toni Morrison, she has published extensively on numerous moern American novelists including E.L. Doctorow, Ralph Ellison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Marilynne Robinson. Her second sole-authored book, Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture (OUP, 2013), was awarded the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize in 2015. Read More Read Less