Stephanie Li is Professor of English and African & African American Studies at Duke University, USA. She has published 7 books including the award-winning Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women (2010) as well as Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama (2011), Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects (2015), and Signifyin(g) Immigrants: Twenty-First Century Pan-African American Literature (2018). She has also written 2 short biographies of Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston. Her most recent book is entitled Ugly White People: Whiteness in Contemporary American Literature (2023). She is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Series, “Race in US Literature and Culture,” and has co-edited several special issues of American Literary History and Black Camera. She is currently editing Volume E (1945-present) of the 11th edition of the Norton Anthology of American Literature as well as Toni Morrison: In Contexts, which aims to be the most comprehensive collection of scholarly essays devoted to the work of Toni Morrison since her death in 2019, for Cambridge University Press.