Jacqueline Goldsby

Yale University

Jacqueline Goldsby is a Professor of English & African American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Birth of the Cool: African American Literary Culture of the 1940s and 1950s. She is also the editor of a forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.