Cedric Gael Bryant is the Lee Family Professor of English at Colby College, where he also teaches in the American Studies Program. He received his Ph.D. from San Diego State, California at San Diego. His specializations include American, African American, and Southern literature. His scholarship has been published in The Southern Review, The African American Review, MELUS, The Missisippi Quarterly, and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. His essay, “‘The Soul Has Bandaged Moments’: Reading the African American Gothic in Wright’s ‘Big Boy Leaves Home,’ Morrison’s Beloved, and Gomez’s The Gilda Stories” received the Joe Wexilmann Award in 2006 for the Outstanding Essay in 20th Century African American Literature published in The African American Review.