# John Stauffer Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies *Currently accepting graduate student advisees ![stauffer](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/english/files/stauffer.jpg?itok=G0uvHXvA) location\_on Office: Barker 267 smartphone [617-495-8440](tel:617-495-8440) email laptop\_windows Mondays at 12-2pm; Thursdays 2:30-4:30pm; and by appointment Education: B.S.E., Duke University M.A.L.S., Weleyan University (1991) M.A., Purdue University (1993) M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University (1998) Interests: American and African American Literature and Culture (especially the 19th century); Slavery and Abolitionism; Photography; Protest Literature; Autobiography. Selected Works: *Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American* (co-authored with Zoe Trodd and Celeste-Marie Bernier); *The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On* (co-authored with Benjamin Soskis); *GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln; The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race*; "Frederick Douglass and the Aesthetics of Freedom," Raritan 25:1; "Remembering the Abolitionists and the Meanings of Freedom," in *Rethinking American Emancipation*. Curatorial: One Life: Frederick Douglass (National Portrait Gallery, 2023); Picturing Frederick Douglass (Museum of African-American History, Boston, 2016-17); Boston's Crusade Against Slavery, with Peter Accardo, Ryan McNabb, and Harvard College Students (Houghton Library, 2013); WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY (Advisor & Contributor: MFA Houston, Annenberg Space for Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, 2012-13). I welcome conversation with students from all backgrounds. - ## Person Categories [Faculty](/person-categories/faculty) - ## Role [Faculty](/role/faculty)