Black Literature and the Business of Printing

Elizabeth McHenry is Professor and Chair of the English Department at New York University. She is the author of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (Duke 2002) and To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship (Duke, 2021). McHenry is currently at work on a project that aims to uncover the work of Black job printers in the production and distribution of African American literature and the extension of Black literary culture.