ANDREWS, William L(eake)

ANDREWS, William L(eake). American, b. 1946. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Novellas/Short stories. Career: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, assistant professor of English, 1973-77; University of Wisconsin-Madison, assistant professor, 1977-78, associate professor, 1978-84, professor of English, 1984-88; University of Kansas, Lawrence, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature, 1989-96; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, E. Maynard Adams professor of English, 1997-. University of Geissen, visiting professor, 1984. Publications: EDITOR: Literary Romanticism in America, 1981; Critical Essays on W.E.B. duBois, 1985; Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century, 1986; Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1987; Six Women's Slave Narratives, 1988; James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 1990; Three Classic African-American Novels, 1990; William Pickens, Bursting Bonds, 1991; Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass, 1991; Collected Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1992; The African-American Novel in the Age of Reaction: Three Classics, 1992; The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader, 1996. CO-EDITOR: Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives, 1990; African-American Literature, 1991; Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 1997; Oxford Companion to African American Literature, 1997; Frederick Douglass, Narrative, 1997. Address: 108 Cottonwood Ct., Chapel Hill, NC 27514, U.S.A.