Carte - The Ghosts of Mark Twain: A Study of Manhood, Race, and the Gothic Imagination - Ann M. Ryan

Ann Ryan is Professor of American Literature at Le Moyne College, past president of the Mark Twain Circle, the former editor of The Mark Twain Annual, and co-editor of the volume Cosmopolitan Twain, published by the University of Missouri Press. Her research focuses primarily on issues of race and racism in Mark Twain's life, his writings, and in the society that produced him. She also writes on the intersections of the gothic and humor in American culture. \n