Faye Spencer Maor currently serves as Communications Coordinator for 1890 Programs at Lincoln University of Missouri. She has taught composition, news writing, photojournalism, and American and African American literature for more than fifteen years on the college level. Currently, she is completing her PhD in Writing Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her interests include the rhetoric of nineteenth-century African American women, the African American press, and issues of race and identity in the composition classroom.