Jacquelyn Y. McLendon
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Jacquelyn Y. McLendon

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Professor of English and Africana Studies Emerita, Dr. Jacquelyn Y. McLendon taught full-time for 21 years at William & Mary and part-time for another four years teaching hybrid and online courses. During her full-time career, she was founding director of Black Studies and directed for ten years, continuing her work with Africana Studies after its establishment in 2009. She is now a freelance writer and teaches online part-time for the University of Maryland Global Campus. Her publications include The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen; a book for young readers titled Phillis Wheatley: Revolutionary Poet; Building on the Legacy: African Americans at William & Mary, An Illustrated History of 50 Years and Beyond, numerous scholarly essays, reviews, and entries in various volumes and journals. She also edited Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen as part of the Modern Language Association’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, co-edited the Pearson Library of American Literature database, including several edited anchor volumes: American Literature, 1945-Present; and African American Literature, Volumes I and II; and, most recently, co-edited with Dr. M. Giulia Fabi of Ferrara University, Italy, the collection Nella Larsen’s Letters, 1917-1935.
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