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live performance at the 2007 Cincinnati Blues Fest.

Steven C. Tracy, Professor

Office Information

Current Course Information

Course Syllabi (pdf)

AfroAm 345 "Southern Literature"
AfroAm 390G "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Brief Bio
Steven C. Tracy is Professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. He is author of Langston Hughes and the Blues (U of Illinois Press 1988), Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City (U of Illinois P, 1993), and A Brush with the Blues (1997). He also served as general co-editor of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (U of Missouri P, 2001-2004) and editor of Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader (UMass P, 1999), Langston Hughes: Works for Children and Young Adults (U of Missouri P, 2001), A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (Oxford UP, 2004), and A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison (Oxford UP, 2004). Professor Tracy provided the introduction for Howard W. Odum's novels Rainbow Round My Shoulder (Indiana University Press, 2006), Wings On My Feet and Cold Blue Moon (forthcoming 2007). A singer and harmonica player, Steven Tracy has recorded with his own band, various blues singers, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; he has opened for B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and many others. Professor Tracy has also written CD liner notes for a variety of labels and produced an LP by Pigmeat Jarrett for June Appal.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

	JOHN HENRY: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play Introduction and Scholarly Materials by Steven C. Tracy (Oxford University Press, 2008)
	AFTER WINTER: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown Edited by Steven C. Tracy and John Edgar Tidwell (Oxford University Press, January 2009)
	Introduction by Steven C. Tracy Howard W. Odum, Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars (Indiana University Press, 2007)
	Introduction by Steven C. Tracy Howard W. Odum, Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses (Indiana University Press, 2006)
	A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
	A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
	The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol. 12 Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies (Columbia and London: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2002)
	Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999)
	A Brush with the Blues 26 portraits by Jack Coughlin; commentary by Steven C. Tracy (Provincetown, MA: Rep House LLC, 1997)
	Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993)
	Steve Tracy and the Crawling Kingsnakes CD: Going to Cincinnati 1990
	Langston Hughes and the Blues (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988)