Katherine Adams is Associate Professor and Kimmerling Chair in English at Tulane University. She is author of Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing (2009); editor of “US Women Writing Race,” a 2009 special issue of TSWL; and co-editor of a 2017 special issue of Legacy, “Recovering Alice Dunbar-Nelson for the Twenty-First-Century.” She is currently writing a book about cotton culture and the re-imagining of racial capitalism in black, post-emancipation writing.