Jean Wyattis Professor Emeritus of English at Occidental College, USA. Her previous publications includeLove and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels(2017) and, with Sheldon George, she editedReading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers(2020).Her articles include: "Freud, Laplanche, Leonardo: Sustaining Enigma"American Imago(2019); "Reinventing the Gothic in Helen Oyeyemi's 'White is for Witching': Maternal Ethics and Racial Politics," inReading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers;"Dislocating the Reader: Slave Motherhood and the Disrupted Temporality of Trauma in Toni Morrison'sBeloved," inThe Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis(ed.Vera Camden, 2022); and "Mirror Mirror: The Visual Economy of Race in Helen Oyeyemi'sBoy, Snow, Bird," and "Alter Egos in Nella Larsen'sPassingand Helen Oyeyemi'sBoy, Snow, Bird: Race and Dissociation" forAngelaki.Sheldon Georgeis Professor of Africana Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His scholarship focuses on race and racism through a study of culture, literature and theory. George is an associate editor ofPsychoanalysis, Culture and Societyand chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the forum, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature. He is author ofTrauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity(2016); co-editor, with Derek Hook, ofLacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory(2021); and co-editor, with Jean Wyatt, ofReading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form(2020).