Anita Patterson

Anita Patterson is a Professor of English at Boston University and author of From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (Oxford University Press, 1997) and Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She has published numerous articles on American literature and interculturality in journals such as American Literary History, The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Modern Language Quarterly, The Nanzan Review of American Studies, and Souffle de Perse. She is currently writing a book about East-West dialogue in an American literary tradition extending from Emerson and T. S. Eliot to Gwendolyn Brooks’s engagement with modernist imagism, Richard Wright’s late haiku-inspired poetry, and Mitsuye Yamada’s Camp Notes, a collection of poems about the Japanese-American internment during WWII.