Barbara McCaskill is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia and Associate Academic Director, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts. She teaches and writes about African American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the author, editor ,or co-editor of five books, including -The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford: Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man- (UGA Press, 2020) and -Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory- (UGA Press, 2015).