Ira Dworkin, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The American University in Cairo, is the editor of Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins (Rutgers University Press 2007). A 2005-2006 Fulbright Professor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is writing a book on the influence of the Congo on African American literary, visual, political, and religious cultures since the late 19th century.