Carolyn Karcher

Carolyn L. Karcher is Professor Emerita of English, American Studies, and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is the author of A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy (2016) and the editor of Tourgée's novel Bricks without Straw . She is also the author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (1994) and Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America (1980).

Carolyn L. Karcher is Professor Emerita of English, American Studies, and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is the author of A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy (2016) and the editor of Tourgée's novel Bricks without Straw . She is also the author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (1994) and Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America (1980). See less