Julia S. Charles-Linen is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado. She recently published her first book, That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing, (UNC Press 2020). Her teaching and research interests center on racial crossing/passing literature, Black women writers, Black girlhood studies, Black YA literature, and film and popular culture. She is currently working on her second book, Finding Fauset, which is a biography of the New Negro Renaissance writer and literary editor, Jessie Redmon Fauset. Julia is the Co-Founder of The Loving Luggage Project, a nonprofit organization that provides new luggage for youth currently in or aging out of foster care.
