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Nellie Yvonne McKay (1930-2006)

As the Evjue Professor of American and African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Nellie Yvonne McKay taught in the Afro-American Studies Department and in the English and Women’s Studies Departments. She served as the Advisory Editor of African American Review and as President of the Midwest Consortium of Black Studies. McKay received an honorary degree from the University of Michigan (2002) and was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Art and Letters (2001). Her research interests included nineteenth and twentieth–century American and African American literatures, black women’s writing, and U.S. multiculturalism.

McKay was frequently celebrated for her coeditorship of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1997). Her other publications include: the Norton Critical Edition of Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, edited with Frances Smith Foster (2001); Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook, edited with William L. Andrews (1998); Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison, edited with Kathryn Earle (1997); Critical Essays on Toni Morrison, editor (1988); and Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936 (1984).

 

 
     
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