White Masculinity in the Recent South

Contributors

Contributors EDWIN T. ARNOLD is Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He has published widely on southern authors including William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Erskine Caldwell, and Donald Harington. He is presently coeditor with Michael Zeitlin of the Faulkner Journal and is working on a study of a series of lynchings that occurred in Georgia in 1899, tentatively titled “What Virtue There is in Fire”: Southern Justice, Sam Hose, and the Making of a Black Martyr. COURT CARNEY is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University. His research has also appeared in the Journal of Southern History and Popular Music and Society. He is currently writing books on the image of Nathan Bedford Forrest and on jazz and American culture in the 1920s. BARBARA CHING is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis. She is the author of Wrong’s What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture. She coedited, with Gerald Creed, Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy. SUSAN V. DONALDSON is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. She wrote Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865–1914, and coedited, with Anne Goodwyn Jones, Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Her current book projects focus on the politics of storytelling in the U.S. South and on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and the demise of Jim Crow. STEVE ESTES is Associate Professor of History at Sonoma State University. He is the author of I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement and editor of Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. ANTHONY JAMES teaches at Coastal Carolina Community College. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. His dissertation was entitled “The De- fenders of Tradition: College Social Fraternities, Race, and Gender, 1945–1980.” His research has also appeared in The Historian and the Journal of Mississippi History . TED OWNBY is Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is author of American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998, and Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865–1920, and editor of Manners and Southern History. K. MICHAEL PRINCE is a freelance writer and translator, currently living in Munich, Germany. A native of South Carolina, he is the author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag, the first booklength history of that state’s long struggle over the display of the rebel flag. Current scholarly interests include the experience of war and its impact on political and historical identity. He is now completing a book on World War II and German memory. BROCK THOMPSON, a native of Conway, Arkansas, holds degrees from Hendrix College and the University of Arkansas. He is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at King’s College, University of London. His research focuses on gay and lesbian southern history, identity politics, and queer theory. LARRY VONALT was chair of the Department of English and Technical Communication at the University of Missouri-Rolla until his death in December 2006. Vonalt had wide-ranging interests in the history, literature, and other arts of the American South. His published work includes essays on the novelist Donald Harington and the photographer Shelby Lee Adams. JAMES H. WATKINS is Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. His work on autobiography and literature of the American South has been published in the Southern Quarterly, the North Carolina Literary Review, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The Companion to Southern Literature , The History of Southern Women’s Literature, and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He is the editor of Southern Selves: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing. 268 Contributors ADAM WATTS is a scientist at the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in Gainesville, Florida, where he coordinates a research program using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for ecological surveys. Previously he studied restoration ecology at the University of Florida, worked as an alligator biologist, and spent two years in Guinea as a Peace Corps volunteer. His work has been published in In the Land of Fire and Water: Proceedings of the Florida Dry Prairie Conference and Ecology and Society. TRENT...