George Bornstein, In Memoriam

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John K Young

Abstract

This essay cluster in Textual Cultures commemorates the scholarly legacy of George Bornstein (1942–2021).

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For George Bornstein (August 25, 1941– February 2, 2021)
Author Biography

John K Young, Marshall University

John K. Young is Professor of English at Marshall University, where he studies and teaches 20th- and 21st-century American, British, and Anglophone literatures, focusing especially on the social dimensions of textual scholarship. His essay in this issue draws from his forthcoming The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer and American Magazine Modernism. Young has written Black Writers, White Publishers (2006) and How to Revise a True War Story (2017), and co-edited, with George Hutchinson, Publishing Blackness (2013); with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall and Susan Starr Richards, A Careful Hunger: Poems, by Judy Young (2019); and, with Jeehyun Lim, a forthcoming volume on 20th- and 21st-century U.S. short fiction for the MLA’s Options for Teaching Series. From 2010-21, he served as executive director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.