Jeffrey Allen Tucker is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Rochester. He is the author of A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity & Difference, editor of Conversations with John A. Williams, co-editor of Race Consciousness: African American Studies for the New Century, and author of scholarly articles on writers such as Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, and George S. Schuyler.