Frances Smith Foster

Frances Smith Foster (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego), Editor, The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance ; Co-Editor, The Literature of Slavery and Freedom . Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emory University. Author of "Til Death or Distance Do Us Part": Love and Marriage in African America ; Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 ; and Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum...See more

Frances Smith Foster (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego), Editor, The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance ; Co-Editor, The Literature of Slavery and Freedom . Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emory University. Author of "Til Death or Distance Do Us Part": Love and Marriage in African America ; Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 ; and Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative . Co-editor of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . Editor of several works, including Love and Marriage in Early African America ; Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes ; and the Norton Critical Edition of Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . See less