Frances Smith Foster is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Emerita, at Emory University. In addition to African American women’s writings, her research interests include women’s personal narratives and early African American culture. Her publications include Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892 and Minnie’s Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Foster is an editor of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Behind the Scenes, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

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On Thursday, September 6, 2018, the American Academy in conjunction with Emory University held a discussion on "The Study of African American Women's Writing: Pasts & Futures." This event served as the 2069th Stated Meeting of the Academy and as a Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture.

Following a welcome from Dwight McBride, the discussion featured remarks from Frances Smith Foster, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and Pellom McDaniels, moderated by Michelle Wright.

This event was held at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

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