Jacqueline Goldsby

Jacqueline Goldsby is Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of English and Black Studies at Yale University. She specializes in African American literary criticism and Print Culture Studies during the long century of Jim Crow segregation, from 1865 to 1965. She is the author of the prizewinning A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, and the widely-acclaimed Norton Critical Edition of James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. She’s currently at work on two book projects, Doing a New Thing: James Baldwin and the Work of Art, and Writing from the Lower Frequencies: African American Literature and Its Mid-Century Moment, and has founded two Archival Studies projects, “Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago’s Hidden Archives” and The Black Bibliography Project (co-directed with Meredith McGill at Rutgers University).