English has teaching and research interests in the areas of African American literature, the Harlem Renaissance, American modernism, Anglophone Caribbean literature, as well as working-class studies and race and film studies. Her book, Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, was published in May 2004. She was also awarded the The Norman Foerster Prize in 2000 for the best essay published annually in American Literature by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. EDUCATION: B.A., Oberlin College M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia English has been teaching at Macalester since 2003.