Professor Leslie Sanders works in African American and Black Canadian literatures. She teaches in Humanities, Graduate English, and the Writing Department. In 2003, she was made a University Professor. She is webmaster for African Canadian Online (www.yorku.ca/aconline)

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Professor Leslie Sanders works in African American and Black Canadian literatures. She teaches in Humanities, Graduate English, and the Writing Department. In 2003, she was made a University Professor. She is webmaster for African Canadian Online (www.yorku.ca/aconline)

Professor Leslie Sanders works in African American and Black Canadian literatures. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America (l988), a general editor of the Collected Works of Langston Hughes, and the volume editor for two volumes of plays and other performance works. Aside from publications on Hughes, she has published on such Black Canadian writers as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, Nourbese Philip, Claire Harris, George Elliot Clarke, Maxine Tynes and Djanet Sears. She is a founder of the Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada and webmaster for African Canadian Online (www.yorku.ca/aconline).

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