Professor of English and African American Literature
Education: B.A., English Composition, Ohio Wesleyan University; M.A., English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., English Language and Literature with a focus on African American Literature and Culture, University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Koritha Mitchell is author of the award-winning book Living with Lynching and author of the 2020 book From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. She is also editor of Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy and editor of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved woman. She has been a professor of English at Ohio State University for eighteen years. As a visiting scholar, she will conduct her teaching and research in community with BU students, staff, and faculty. Her public commentary has appeared in outlets such as Time, CNN, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, NBC News, PBS Newshour, and NPR’s Morning Edition. Online, she’s @ProfKori. Full CV