Tracey L. Walters is Professor of Literature in the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also holds an affiliate appointment with the Department of English, and Women's and Gender Studies. Dr. Walters has published numerous articles on Black women's literature and several books: African American Women and the Classicists Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison (2007), Zadie Smith: Critical Essays (2008), Zadie Smith (2012), and Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Media (2021).