Elise Lemire

Elise Lemire is the author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts and "Miscegenation" Making Race in America, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A two-time fellowship recipient from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY.

Elise Lemire is the author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts and "Miscegenation" Making Race in America, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A two-time fellowship recipient from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY. See less