Dr. Mark Whalan joined the University of Oregon as the Robert D. and Eve E. Horn Professor of English in 2011, after beginning his career at the University of Exeter in the UK. He specializes in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and has published five books: The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 (University of Tennessee Press 2006); Race, Manhood and Modernism in America: The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer (University of Tennessee Press 2007); The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro (University Press of Florida, 2008); American Culture in the 1910s (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); and most recently, World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is co-editor, with Professor Martin Halliwell of the University of Leicester, of the Edinburgh University Press monograph series Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of American Studies, and has published in American Literary History, African American Review, Modernism/Modernity, American Art, Studies in American Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies, and the Journal of American Studies. He is currently at work on editing The Cambridge History of American Modernism.