Steven H. Gale is the University Endowed Chair in the Humanities in the Whitney Young, Jr. College of Leadership Studies at Kentucky State University. He has taught at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Liberia (as a Fulbright Professor), the University of Florida, and Missouri Southern State. He was head of the Department of English and Director of the University Honor Program at Missouri Southern. Professor Gale earned his bachelors degree at Duke University, his masters at UCLA, and his doctora...