Cesar Lyndon Was Here
Tara A. Bynum, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies at University of Iowa and a scholar of early African American literary histories before 1800. Her monograph, Reading Pleasures, about the many ways Black people feel good in the 18th century, is forthcoming from University of Illinois’ New Black Studies series. Together, her research and writing have received generous financial support from Washington College and the John Carter Brown Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Antiquarian Society, Library Company of Philadelphia and the Program in African American History, Rutgers University, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
