Gerald Early

Title:	Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters Director, Center for the Humanities Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of English Professor of African and African American Studies
Degree:	PHD, Cornell University MA, Cornell University BA, University of Pennsylvania
Dept:	African & African American Studies American Culture Studies English Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities
Office:	McMillan Hall S102
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1071 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-5576
E-mail:	glearly@wustl.edu

Courses
African Americans and Children's Literature; Writing for Children and Young Adults; A History of the Golden Age of Children's Literature

Research Interests
American Literature, African-American Culture 1940-1960, Afro-American Autobiography Non-fiction Prose.

Selected Publications:

One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture, Ecco Press, 1995.

Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood, Addison-Wesley, Spring 1994.

Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture, The Ecco Press, January 1990.

"Baseball and African American Life," in Baseball: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Knopf, 1994, p. 412-417.

"Black Studies: An Education or the Reflection of a Crisis," Academic Questions, Vol. 11, No. 4, Fall 1998, p. 12-20.