Benjamin Fagan
Benjamin Fagan is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University. He specializes in early African American literature and culture. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (University of Georgia Press, 2016), co-editor of Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (University of Georgia Press, 2019), and editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His work has also appeared in journals, such as American Literary History, African American Review, and American Periodicals, and in edited collections on the Colored Conventions Movement, African American literature in the 1850s, and Frederick Douglass.