#  John Stauffer 

Faculty Associate.

Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, Departments of English and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** American and African American literature and culture, especially the nineteenth century; slavery and abolitionism; photography; protest literature; and autobiography.



 

 

 





 

 

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