Contributors
- Contributors
Gene I. Gorman will receive his Ph.D. in English from Boston College in August 2012. His dissertation examines the relationship of convict labor to southern progressivism by focusing on representations of southern chain gangs in twentieth-century American literature and film.
Mark A. Graves is Associate Professor of English at Morehead State University (KY), where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in American literature and undergraduate classes in film and writing. He is the co-author of Blockbusters: A Reference Guide to Film Genre (Greenwood, 2006) and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of American War Literature (Greenwood, 2001). He has published articles on Ellen Glasgow, Wilfred Owen, and Pulitzer-winner Josephine Johnson in regional and natural journals, and he currently serves on the editorial board of The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers.
Shawn E. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. His work has appeared in Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, and Mississippi Quarterly.
Thomas F. Haddox is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He is the author of Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (Fordham UP, 2005) and the co-editor, with Allen Dunn, of The Limits of Literary Historicism (U of Tennessee P, 2011). His most recent essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Religion and Literature.
Alison Arant is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina. Her dissertation examines representations of spinster figures in literature written in the U.S. South between 1923 and 1946. Her article on Richard Wright’s posthumously published novel, A Father’s Law, is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies. [End Page 159]
John F. Desmond is the Mary A. Denny Professor Emeritus of English at Whitman College. He is the author of Walker Percy’s Search for Community (U of Georgia P, 2004), At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy (Whitston P, 1997), Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light (Baylor UP, 2008), and Risen Sons: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of History (U of Georgia P, 1987U of Georgia P, 2010). He has published numerous articles on Twain, James, O’Connor, Greene, Percy, Welty, Heaney, and Malamud.
Noel Polk is Emeritus Professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of The Mississippi Quarterly. He has published and lectured widely on William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and other southern authors. Books include Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work; Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner; Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition; Outside the Southern Myth; and, most recently, a book of poems, Walking Safari.
William M. Ramsey is Professor of English at Francis Marion University, Florence, SC. His research interest is the evolution of African-American perceptions of the South, with articles appearing in Southern Literary Journal, African-American Review, American Literature, and others. His poetry has appeared in Southern Poetry Journal, Christian Century, Commonweal, and others. He has published two books of haiku, This Wine and More Wine.
Riché Richardson is Associate Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Her essays have been published in American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, TransAtlantica, and NKA. Her first book, Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (U of Georgia P, 2007) was highlighted by Choice Books as one of the “Outstanding Academic Titles of 2008.” Since 2005, she has served as co-editor with Jon Smith of the New Southern Studies book series at the University of Georgia Press.
Christopher Metress is Professor of English at Samford University. His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, and he is currently at work on a series of essays about white southern writers and the civil rights movement. His most recent book is Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (2008), a collection of essays co-edited with Harriet Pollack. [End Page 160]
Lucy Ferriss is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College in Connecticut. She is the author of nine books, including Sleeping with the Boss: Female Subjectivity...
