Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig: A Cultural Biography of a "Two-Story" African American Novel

R.J. Ellis is Professor of English and American Studies at the Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on little magazine and literary review production, African American writing and Beat writing and writers. His most recent books include an edited collection of articles on William Faulkner and Modernism (Nottingham: University of Nottingham: Renaissance and Modern Studies Series, 2000) and Liar! Liar!: Jack Kerouac Novelist (London: Greenwich Exchange, 1999). He is also the editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Comparative American Studies (London: Sage).