Year Inducted
2002
Career Field
English
Highlights
- Founder and Director of the Project on the History of Black Writing
- Director of Langston Hughes International Symposium at KU and Founder/Director of the Langston Hughes National Poetry Project
- President of the Toni Morrison Society and chair of her Princeton University 75th birthday party
- Editor of numerous seminal collections of works on African American writers
- Credited with revitalizing and restructuring the October Conference
- John Hope Franklin Fellow, National Humanities Center
- KU Distinguished Professor