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Carter Mathes is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. He has written a book, Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature After Civil Rights, and is working on a second, Ecologies of Funk. He has published essays in venues including Small Axe, Contemporary Literature, Oxford American, Callaloo, and African American Review.
