Juda Charles Bennett is an author, a literary theorist and assistant professor of English at The College of New Jersey. He received his B.A. in English and creative writing from Binghamton University in 1988; his M.A. in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 1989; and his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Washington in 1994. Bennett is the editor of the journal Transformations and the author of a number of literary articles and short stories, as well as the book The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature.