Todd Lawrence is associate professor in the Department of English. He holds a B.A. from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Mo, an M.A. from Creighton University, and a Ph.D. in African American Literature and Folklore from the University of Missouri. He has taught courses on politics and form in African American poetry, folklore in African American literature, the Black Arts Movement, Hip Hop and the Black literary tradition, African American literary theory—and he regularly teaches the American Culture and Difference foundations course.