Adam McKible, Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, teaches American and African American literature. He is the author of Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity (2024) and The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002). He edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams's When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance. He is also co-editor of a special issue of Modernism/modernity devoted to the Harlem Renaissance (2013) and of the collection, Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2005).

Robert Jackson, James G. Watson Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, is a cultural historian of the modern and contemporary United States. He has written Fade In, Crossroads: A History of the Southern Cinema (2017) and Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence,

Innovation (2005), and he has published scholarship in such journals as Modernism/modernity, American Literary History, the Southern Literary Journal, and the Journal of American History. His editorial work includes special issues of The James Baldwin Review, The Faulkner Journal, and The Global South.

Keith Clark is Distinguished University Professor, Professor of English, and affiliate faculty in the African and African American Studies program at George Mason University. He is the author of Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines and August Wilson (2002), The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry (2013), and Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers (2020). His essays have in appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison.