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  • Contributors

James A. Crank is an assistant professor of American literature at the University of Alabama. His work has appeared in Southern Literary Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, and Southern Studies as well as collections such as Agee at 100 and Southerners on Film. He is the author of Understanding Sam Shepard (U of South Carolina P, 2012) and the forthcoming The Morning Watch and Collected Short Fiction of James Agee (U of Tennessee P, 2017).

Jill Goad is an assistant professor of English at Shorter University. She is currently completing her dissertation on mothers in twentieth-century southern literature as viewed through the feminist revisionist lens of Freudian theory. She has recently published on the thematic similarities between Natasha Trethewey and Seamus Heaney in Irish Studies South.

Thomas F. Haddox is a professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His most recent book is Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2013). He has also published essays on southern texts in Southern Literary Journal, American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Southern Quarterly, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The Flannery O’Connor Review.

Christopher Lloyd is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is the author of Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) as well as essays on the southern gothic and Hurricane Katrina. He is working on a new project, Corporeal Legacies, and editing a special issue of Mississippi Quarterly on the contemporary southern novel.

Amy K. King is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work has recently appeared in the edited collection Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing (Demeter Press, 2015) and is forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly.

Jess Roberts lives, teaches, reads, and writes at the forks of the Kalamazoo River where she is professor of English at Albion College and director of Albion’s Big Read. Her essays on nineteenth-century American poet Sarah Piatt have appeared in the Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Cambridge’s A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. [End Page 283] Her current projects focus on the richness of literature as a resource for creating and sustaining community.

Stephanie Rountree is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature and Provost’s Dissertation Fellow at Georgia State University. She has published several refereed articles and book chapters on U.S. literature and media, and she currently serves as co-editor of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU Press, forthcoming Fall 2017). Her dissertation investigates public policies that relegate bodies as technologies of U.S. (neo)liberalism in post-Emancipation literature and history.

Cynthia Wu, one of Patricia Yaeger’s former students, is an associate professor of American studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She is the author of Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture (Temple, 2012). She is at work on two new projects, one on the U.S. military in the Asian American imagination and the other on intraracial male same-sex desire in Asian American literature. [End Page 284]

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