Lori Har­ri­­son-Kahan is the edi­tor of The Super­woman and Oth­er Writ­ings by Miri­am Michel­son and co-edi­tor of a new edi­tion of Heirs of Yes­ter­day by Emma Wolf. She is also the author of The White Negress: Lit­er­a­ture, Min­strel­sy, and the Black-Jew­­ish Imag­i­nary and an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of the prac­tice of Eng­lish at Boston College.