This class is a book-club-style discussion of a contemporary text, in this case, Percival Everett's Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, "James," which reimagines the story of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim's perspective. Instructor Katie Cortese, author of "Make Way for Her and Other Stories" and "Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories," has work in journals such as Indiana Review, Blackbird, and Gulf Coast. She holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University and an MFA from Arizona State University. She teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech, where she also serves as faculty director of Texas Tech University Press and series editor of the Iron Horse Book Prize.