BSA Leadership News: Announcing Executive Director Tracy Floreani

Meet BSA’s new Executive Director

Tracy Floreani holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas and is a distinguished scholar of mid-twentieth-century American literature and culture, with a focus on Ralph Ellison and his wife Fanny Ellison. She is the author of Fifties Ethnicities: The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury (2013), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and editorial projects in her fields. In addition to specializing in literary studies, Tracy has extensive training in archival, biographical, and book-historical research methods as well as significant experience in public humanities programming and advocacy. Her recent experience includes positions as Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor of English and Director of the Jeanne Hoffman Smith Center for Film & Literature at Oklahoma City University, and President of the Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS).