Lori Harrison-Kahan is the author of West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture and The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary. She is the editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson and co-editor of three volumes: Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf, Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, and The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings, a Penguin Classics edition of Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s journalism and fiction. She teaches English and American Studies at Boston College.