Wendy Rountree is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina. Her expertise is in twentieth-century ethnic American literature with an emphasis in African American literature, twentieth-century American literature, and twentieth-century ethnic American drama. She has published scholarly articles, an academic book, Just Us Girls: The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel (Lang, 2008), and a young adult novel, Lost Soul (2003). Dr. Rountree is a native of Kinston, North Carolina, and is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill (B.S.), East Carolina University (BA, MA), and the University of Cincinnati (PhD).