Description: Editing the Harlem Renaissance foregrounds an exhaustive approach to editing and editorial issues, exploring not only those figures who edited in professional capacities, but also those authors who employed editorial practices during the writing process and those texts that have been discovered or edited by others following the Harlem Renaissance.
Brief description: Ross K. Tangedal is assistant professor of English and director of the Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He specializes in American print culture and publishing studies, textual editing, and book history, with emphasis in Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and midwestern literature. His work has been published in South Atlantic Review, The Hemingway Review, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Authorship, and others. He is a contributing editor for the NEH-funded Hemingway Letters Project (Cambridge UP) as well as associate editor for Volume 6 (forthcoming 2021). In 2018, Hastings College Press published Tangedal's edition of John Herrmann's Foreign Born, a lost novel of the American home front during World War I.
Review Quotes: Reviews
'Editing the Harlem Renaissance is an outstanding and impressive text. This invaluable collection demonstrates the relevance of the Harlem Renaissance to African American literature and will result in generating productive and constructive discussion among scholars about editors and Harlem Renaissance texts.'
Sharon L. Jones, author of Rereading the Harlem Renaissance