Dr. Donald Shaffer holds a joint appointment to the English Department and the African American Studies Program.
Teaching interests:
African American literature
Courses:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dialectics of Racial Representation
- Studies in Literature Since 1900 -Locations in Harlem: Constructing Race, Palce and Identity in the Early 20th Century African-American Novel
- Richard Wright
- Toni Morrison
- Literature of the South

