Emily Bernard

Emily Bernard is an American writer and the Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is also a contributing editor to The American Scholar. Her memoir-essay collection Black Is the Body won the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose in 2019. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1967, she earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. Her work focuses on African American and 20th-century American literature. She has also edited anthologies and written on Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten.