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Verner D. Mitchell

Professor

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vdmtchll@memphis.edu
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901.678.2226
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Verner Mitchell

Education

B.S., 1979, Political Science, US Air Force Academy
M.A., 1985, English, Colorado State University
Ph.D., 1995, English, Rutgers University

Academic Summary

Dr. Mitchell is the Catherine and Charles Freeburg Fellow. His principle area of research has been women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. His most recent book, In Flaming Letters: Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press.

Select Publications

  • Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring Cuney. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 2024. Co-authored with Cynthia Davis.
  • “Yours for Humanity: An Examination of the Life and Work of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1856-1930).” In Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature. Ed. LaToya Jefferson-James. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 33-48. 
  • “Langston Hughes and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR.” In African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940. Ed. Eve Dunbar and Ayesha Hardison. New York: Cambridge UP, 2022. 296-320. Co-authored with Cynthia Davis. 
  • Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012. Co-authored with Cynthia Davis.
  • Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman. Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Co-edited with Cynthia Davis.
  • This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Amherst: UofMassachusetts Press. 2000.