Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches

Contributors

[ 225 ] CONTRIBUTORS JaMEs E. BisHoP is assistant professor of English at Young Harris College in Georgia. He has published articles on American writers J. Hector St. John de Créveceour, John Muir, and John Graves. Currently he is at work on an anthology, Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy, which he is co-editing with Kyhl Lyndgaard and Scott Slovic. BrucE BlansEtt is a graduate student studying English literature at Virginia Tech. He received a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, while also cultivating his love for math and science. Bruce’s chief research interests include African American literature, literature of the nineteenth century, gender studies, and the influence of science on social phenomena and the written word. MarK s. grayBill is an associate professor of English at Widener University in suburban Philadelphia. He has published scholarly articles on Barry Hannah, James Dickey, John Gardner, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Bruce Springsteen, among others. Currently, he is co-editing a collection of essays on representations of evil in popular music of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. JEnnifEr a. HugHEs is an assistant professor of English at Young Harris College in Georgia, where she teaches courses in early American literature , humor, romanticism, women’s literature, and southern/Appalachian literature. Her publications include “Turning the Century” in A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900–1950 (co-authored with Michael A. Elliot; Blackwell, 2008) and “The Politics of Incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s The Fanatics” (African American Review, Summer 2007). She is currently revising her dissertation, Telling Laughter: Hilarity and Democracy in the Nineteenth-Century United States, into a book. [ 226 ] contriButors JoHn loWE is the Barbara Lester Methvin Distinguished Professor of Southern Literature at the University of Georgia. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Cosmic Comedy (1994) and the recently completed Calypso Magnolia: The Caribbean Side of the South (forthcoming). grEtcHEn Martin is an associate professor of American Literature, with special interest in southern literature, at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. She also teaches African American literature and literary theory. She is the author of The Frontier Roots of American Realism (2007) and has published her work in Southern Literary Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, South Atlantic Review, Southern Studies, North Carolina Literary Review, and Studies in American Humor. KatHryn McKEE is McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English at the University of Mississippi. She is co-editor, with Deborah Barker, of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (2011), and her articles have appeared in various journals, including American Literature, Legacy, Southern Literary Journal, and Mississippi Quarterly. WinifrEd Morgan, Professor of English, Edgewood College, has a long-term fascination with tricksters. Her 1988 book, Brother Jonathan: An American Icon (University of Delaware Press) explores the role of a Yankee trickster in American popular culture. Her interest in southern literature is demonstrated by chapters and articles in American Studies and CEA Critic. Ed PiacEntino is a professor emeritus of English at High Point University in North Carolina and editor of the scholarly journal Studies in American Humor. A specialist in the literature and culture of the American South, he has published widely and extensively in the field, having authored or edited seven books, most recently Southern Frontier Humor: An Anthology (Missouri 2010), with M. Thomas Inge, and has also contributed chapters to books and numerous articles and reviews to scholarly journals. contriButors [ 227 ] tracy WustEr received his PhD in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. He has published articles on Steve Martin, Mark Twain and Hawaii, and Mark Twain and England. He is the founding chair of the Humor Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association. This page intentionally left blank ...