Barbara McCaskill

Associate Professor of English and General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professor · University of Georgia · company speakers →

Associate Professor of English and General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia, Professor McCaskill is the co-editor of Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 (New York UP, 2006), in which she has an essay, 'Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E. K. Love, and the Sacred Rebellion of Uplift.' An Augustus Anson Whitney Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Fellow at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute, she co-edited, with Suzanne M. Miller, Multi-Cultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for Difference (SUNY P, 1992) and edited Running One Thousand Miles for Freedom; or The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (U of Georgia P, 1999). She has published numerous articles on the Crafts as well as other African American writers, including in the African American Review and books such as the MLA Volume Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, ed. James Hall, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader, ed. Karen L. Kilcup (Blackwell, 2000), and The Souls of Black Folk: One Hundred Years Later, ed. Dolan Hubbard (Missouri, 2002). She is currently at work on a book on the Crafts in addition to co-directing the Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative at the University of Georgia, funded by $750,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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