James W. Coleman is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his B.A from Virginia Union University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Coleman is the author of Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman; Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban; Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; and Writing Blackness: John Edgar Wideman's Art and Experimentation.