Associate Professor
E-Mail: shfergus@uncg.edu
Phone: 334-5484
Office: 3117 MHRA
SallyAnn Ferguson teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the multi-ethnic literatures of the United States, especially African American writing. She also specializes in African American women authors, the slave narrative and Charles W. Chesnutt. Dr. Ferguson’s publications include articles in American Literature, Southern Literary Journal, South Atlantic Review, Obsidian, MELUS Journal, Black American Literature Forum (African American Review), Langston Hughes Review, Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States, and Critical Essays on James Weldon Johnson. Houghton Mifflin recently published Charles W. Chesnutt: Selected Writings in their New Riverside Series on American Literature, and she is also completing a full-length critical study of this writer. "New Souths, Old Fears, and Dreaming Colonels" introduces the new Toby Press reprint edition of The Colonel's Dream (2004) by Charles W. Chesnutt.