Thomas L. Morgan is an Associate Professor of American and African American Literature at the University of Dayton. He has published on James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Kate Chopin, and Richard Wright, and has edited (with Gene Jarrett) The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar. His work focuses on the politics of narrative form, with recent work examining the role language and metaphor play in replicating structural inequality.