Jerry Ward, an Honorary Professor at Central China Normal University, is the author of THE KATRINA PAPERS: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery (2008) and The China Lectures (2014). He is co-editor of The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (2008) and the Cambridge History of African American Literature (2011). After retiring from 32 years of teaching at Tougaloo College (1970 – 2002) and 10 years at Dillard University (2002 – 2012), he takes great pleasure in blogging and in writing literary and social essays.
