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About the Authors

Renée H. Shea was professor of English and Modern Languages and direc-
tor of freshman composition at Bowie State University in Maryland, where she
taught graduate seminars in rhetoric. A College Board faculty consultant for
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more than thirty years in AP Language and Literature, and Pre-AP English,
she has been a reader and question leader for both AP English exams. Renée
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served as a member on many committees for the College Board, including the
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AP Language and Composition Development Committee, the English Academic
Advisory Committee, and the SAT Critical Reading Test Development Committee.
She is co-author of Literature & Composition, American Literature & Rhetoric,
Conversations in American Literature, Advanced Language & Literature, and
Foundations of Language & Literature, as well as volumes on Amy Tan and Zora
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Neale Hurston for the NCTE High School Literature Series. Renée continues
to write about contemporary authors for publications such as World Literature
Today, Poets & Writers, and Kenyon Review. Her recent publications focused on
Celeste Ng, Imbolo Mbue, Namwali Serpell, Manuel Muñoz, and Ohio’s 2020–2024
poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour.
Robin Dissin Aufses was director of English Studies at Lycée Français de
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New York, where she taught AP English Language and Composition. Previous
to this position, Robin was the English department chair and a teacher at John F.
Kennedy High School in Bellmore, New York, and prior to that she taught English
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at Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington, New York. She taught AP
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English Literature and AP English Language at both schools. She is co-author of
Literature & Composition, American Literature & Rhetoric, and Conversations in
American Literature and has published articles for the College Board on novelist
Chang-rae Lee and the novel All the King’s Men.
Lawrence Scanlon taught at Brewster High School for more than thirty
years and then for another ten years at Iona College in New York. For twenty-five
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years, he was a Reader and Question Leader for the AP Language and Com-
position Exam. As a College Board consultant over that same period of time, he
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has conducted AP workshops in both AP English Language and AP English
Literature throughout the United States and in South America, Europe, Asia, and
the Middle East. He has also provided professional development as a private
consultant for many school districts. He served on the PSAT Review Committee
and the AP English Language Test Development Committee. Larry is co-author
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of Literature & Composition, American Literature & Rhetoric, and Conversations
in American Literature and has published articles on curriculum and method for
the College Board and elsewhere.
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