About Author

Dr. R. Victoria Arana is graduate professor of English at Howard University, where she teaches research and critical methods, British literature, and, from time to time, special-focus courses—including Black British Travel Writing, Black British Writers, Buchi Emecheta and Her Literary Progeny, Post-Colonial Critical Theory and Literature, James Joyce, Modern and Post-Colonial British Literature, Contemporary British Drama, 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature: Poetry and Fiction (2 semesters), and Victorian Painting and Poetry.

She is a graduate of Vassar College, Princeton University, and George Washington University, where, respectively, she studied Romance languages and literatures, Middle Eastern culture and literature, and English literature and literary criticism.