Biography
Howard Rambsy II is Distinguished Research Professor of Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA, where he specializes in African American fiction, poetry, and comic books. He is the author of The Black Arts Enterprise (2011), Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (2020), and One Black Writer at a Time: How Literary Coverage Shapes Reception (with Kenton Rambsy; forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2026). He is the creator of Remarkable Receptions, a podcast series on African American literature.