Verena Theile, assistant professor of English, is co-editor of the recently published book, "Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century."

Theile and co-editor Marie Drews draw together material that, according to publishers, "offers a critical valuation of literature composed by black female writers and examines their projects of reclamation, rememory and revision. As a collection, it engages black women writers’ efforts to create more inclusive conceptualizations of community, gender and history, conceptualizations that take into account alternate lived and written experiences as well as imagined futures."

Theile has been a faculty member at NDSU since fall 2008. Cambridge Scholars Publishing published the book.