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Koritha Mitchell

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Koritha Mitchell is a professor of African American literature at Boston University. She previously taught at the Ohio State University, and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. In 2011, University of Illinois Press published her book on a study of African-Americans titled Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 which won her numerous awards from the American Theatre & Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers respectively.

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