Contributors
- Contributors
Garry Bertholf is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University. His work has appeared in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. His first book project is tentatively titled The Black Charismatic: Demagoguery and the Politics of Affect.
Michael P. Bibler is an associate professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University and author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 (U of Virginia P, 2009) and co-editor of Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (U of Virginia P, 2007) and of Arna Bontemps’s 1939 novel Drums at Dusk (Louisiana State UP, 2009). His current projects explore the links between sexuality and materiality from the possessive intimacy of property relations in the antebellum South to the queer literalisms of the B-52’s and Truman Capote.
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt is the John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her most recent books are A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (U of Georgia P, 2011), Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket (U of Texas P, 2009), and The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature (Ohio UP, 2003). She is co-editor of The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South (U of Georgia P, 2013), and her work has appeared in two volumes of Cornbread Nation, which recognizes the best southern food writing.
The Dolores Flores-Silva Deep Listening Trio is led by Dolores Flores-Silva (associate professor of Latin American literature and culture at Roanoke College) on lead vocals and requinto; anchored by our ex-Roanoke colleague Keith Cartwright (professor of English, University of North Florida) on bass; with Rosemary Mulligan (recent Roanoke College graduate with a B.A. in Spanish) on maracas and sound engineering. Flores-Silva is co-author of The Cross and the Sword in the Works of Rosario Ferré and Mayra Montero (Cd. Juarez, Mexico 2010) and is currently collaborating with Cartwright on a book manuscript entitled Cornbread, Quimbombó y Barbacoa: Mexico and the Gulf Shores of Our Souths. See the band’s YouTube postings for the music tracks from their El Sur Profundo (ESP) project. [End Page 151]
Heather Fox is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of South Florida. She has published on the role of narrative decision and memory in the works of Katherine Anne Porter and William Faulkner. Her dissertation examines the implications of narrative decision in the arrangements of first short story collections by southern women writers from 1894–1944.
Bryan Giemza is the director of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author and/or editor of five books including Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South (Louisiana State UP, 2013). He is currently writing a novel as well as a co-authored volume of photographs curated from the work of FSA photographers in Louisiana.
Coleman Hutchison is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (U of Georgia P, 2012); the co-author of a guide for students entitled Writing About American Literature (Norton, 2014); and the editor of A History of American Civil War Literature (Cambridge, 2015).
Sara E. Johnson is an associate professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego. Her book, The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas (U of California P, 2012) is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent in the hemispheric Americas responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1845). She has also co-edited two volumes of essays, the first on the dancer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham and the second on contemporary Cuba.
Fred Moten is the...
