Dr. Terrence T. Tucker is Professor of African American Literature and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock (University Press of Florida, 2018). His current research focuses on the African American middle and upper class in literature and film. His second book project, The Rise of the Afristocracy: Portraits of the Black Elite in Contemporary African American Literature has been contracted with University Press of Florida. He has also published essays on topics ranging from race and pedagogy to post-soul satire as well as the work of Ernest Gaines and Walter Mosley, The Boondocks, and African-American superheroes. He recently co-edited a special issue on journal on Afrofuturism in the College Language Association Journal (CLAJ). He has also published other essays in CLAJ as well as journals like Pedagogy, Southern Literary Journal. He has directed multiple shows, including ntozake shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, Douglas Turner Ward's Day of Absence, and Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.