Front Cover: Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). Deep South (panel from the mural America Today). 1930. Egg tempera with oil glazing over Permalba on a gesso ground on linen mounted to wood panels with a honeycomb interior, 92 x 117 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY.

Back Cover: Evelyn Gandy Parkway near Petal, Mississippi. 2017. Used with the permission of Erica Van Schaik.

The Southern Quarterly

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Editorial Board

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Editor

Philip C. Kolin

Book Review Editor

Philip C. Kolin

Managing Editor

Diane DeCesare Ross

Film Review Editor

Phillip Gentile

Editorial Assistant

Erica Van Schaik

Editorial Advisory Board

Faedra Carpenter, University of Maryland

Susan Castillo Street, King’s College London

Una Chaudhuri, New York University

Harry Elam, Stanford University

William Ferris, University of North Carolina

Michael Kreyling, Vanderbilt University

Michael Lofaro, University of Tennessee

John Lowe, University of Georgia

Paul Mariani, Boston College

Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University

Christopher Metress, Samford University

Christopher Morris, University of Texas-Arlington

Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut

Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Millsaps College

Nancy Steen, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

James G. Thomas, Jr., University of Mississippi

Governor William Winter, Jackson, Mississippi

Jürgen Wolter, Universität Wuppertal, Germany

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