John Ernest
Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Office: 213 Colson Hall
Tel: 293-9714
Fax: 293-5380
Email: john.ernest@mail.wvu.edu
John Ernest, the Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature, is the author or editor of ten books and over twenty-five journal articles and book chapters. His recent books include Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (2004), Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History (2009), and A Nation Within a Nation: Organizing African American Communities before the Civil War (2011). Recent editions include Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself (2008), J. McHenry Jones’s Hearts of Gold (co-edited with Eric Gardner, 2010), and William Wells Brown’s My Southern Home; Or, The South and Its People (forthcoming). He and Joycelyn K. Moody are general editors of Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture, a series published by West Virginia University Press. Before arriving at WVU in 2005, he taught for twelve years at the University of New Hampshire, where he served as Director of Undergraduate Composition, Co-Director of the Discovery Program, and Director of African American Studies. At UNH, he received the Outstanding Assistant Professor Award (1997), the UNH Diversity Support Coalition’s Positive Change Award (1998), the Jean Brierley Award for Excellence in Teaching (2003-2004), and the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award for Higher Education (2004).
Specializations:
Nineteenth-century African American Studies
Race Theory
Historiography
Pedagogy
