Marc K. Dudley is a professor of American literature and Africana Studies at North Carolina State University. He has spoken widely on such authors as Charles Chesnutt, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cormac McCarthy. He has contributed to the collections The New Hemingway Studies (Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions), Hemingway’s Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding, and Teaching Hemingway and Race. Additionally, he has published in The Hemingway Review and is the author of Hemingway, Race, and Art: Bloodlines and the Color Line and Understanding James Baldwin.