Angelyn Mitchell is an Associate Professor in the Department of English.

She received her Ph.D. from Howard University, her M.A. degree from North Carolina Central University, and B.A. from North Carolina State University.

Dr. Mitchell's teaching and research interests are: American, African American and Caribbean literatures; critical theory; cultural studies; women's studies; African-American studies, and American Studies. She is particularly interested in the work of author Toni Morrison.

Dr. Mitchell's selected publications include: articles on William Wells Brown, Harriet Wilson, Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler. She also edited Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (Duke UP, 1994). She is the author of The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, & Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction (Rutgers UP, 2002). She is the co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Writing (Cambridge UP, forthcoming).

She is currently working on a book-length project entitled "The Essential American: Toni Morrison, Race, and Identity."