Lori Har­ri­­­son-Kahan is the edi­tor of The Super­woman and Oth­er Writ­ings by Miri­am Michel­son; co-edi­­tor of an edi­tion of Heirs of Yes­ter­day by Emma Wolf; and co-edi­tor of The Case of Lizzie Bor­den and Oth­er Writ­ings, a Pen­guin Clas­sics edi­tion of jour­nal­ism and fic­tion by Eliz­a­beth Garv­er Jor­dan. She is also the author of The White Negress: Lit­er­a­ture, Min­strel­sy, and the Black-Jew­­­ish Imag­i­nary and a full pro­fes­sor of the prac­tice of Eng­lish at Boston College.