Gerald Early
Director
Gerald Early is the Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters. He is the editor of several volumes, including Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation (1993); My Soul's High Song: The Collected Works of Countee Cullen (1991); Speech and Power (1993); Body Language: Writers on Sport (1998); and The Muhammad Ali Reader (1998). Professor Early is the author of Tuxedo Junction (1989), Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood (1994), One Nation Under a Groove; Motown and American Culture (1994), and The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.