Tom Morgan is Director of Race and Ethnic Studies and Associate Professor of English at the University of Dayton. His research focuses on the politics of narrative form, African American haiku, and the short story in late nineteenth-century periodical culture. His published work includes essays on James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Kate Chopin, and Stephen Crane, and he edited The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar with Gene Andrew Jarrett. He is also moderately obsessed with metaphor.