Patrice Rankine is Professor in the Department of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. He is author of Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience (Baylor University Press, 2013), and coauthor of The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas.
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