Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Michael Allen, professor of history at the University of Washington, Tacoma, has written six books, including Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse (Louisiana State UP, 1990), Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination (Nevada, 1998), and with Larry Schweikart, the number one New York Times and Amazon.com bestseller, A Patriot’s History of the United States (Sentinel [Penguin Group] 2004, rev. ed. 2014). He has recently completed a book manuscript titled “Mississippi River Valley: The Course of American Civilization.”
The editor of Mississippi Quarterly since 2013, Ted Atkinson is an associate professor of English at Mississippi State University. His book, Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2006. Atkinson has published essays on Faulkner and other topics related to Southern Studies in several collections and in journals, including Journal of American Studies, Southern Literary Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, and The Faulkner Journal. He is currently working on an essay about “Tennessee Valley Authority Modernism” for an edited collection focused on the 1930s South beyond agrarianism.
Alison Graham Bertolini is an assistant professor of English and women’s studies at North Dakota State University. She has published articles in the Eudora Welty Review, The Southern Quarterly, South Asian Review, and in a variety of collections. Her first monograph, Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011.
Barbara Eckstein is professor of English and on the faculty in the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa. Among her publications are Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local, Memory and the Fate of a City (Routledge, 2005) and articles in Resilience, American Literary History, and the collection Geohumanities. She recently co-directed the symposium “Energy Cultures in the Anthropocene” (uianthropocene.com).
William Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent books are Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (U of North Carolina P, 2009) and The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists (U of North Carolina P, 2013).
Phillip Gentile teaches film studies at The University of Southern Mississippi at the Gulf Park campus. His scholarly interests include documentary film, postwar American avant-garde film, and film comedy. He teaches classes in film history and theory, film production, and animation. His film Cursive was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 6th Annual Crossroads Film Festival.
Pearl Amelia McHaney serves as director of the Center for Collaborative and International Arts and is the associate dean for the fine arts for the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University. Her work focuses on writing and photography by Eudora Welty, most recently A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs (UP of Mississippi, 2014), Occasions: Selected Writings (UP of Mississippi, 2009), A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviews (UP of Mississippi, 2009), and Eudora Welty: Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge [End Page 169] UP, 2005). The Eudora Welty Society presented her with the Phoenix Award in 2014 for significant scholarly contributions to Welty studies. She was recently been named the Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University.
Christopher Morris is professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of two books, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860 (Oxford UP, 1995) and The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (Oxford UP, 2012). Raised in Canada, Morris moved south to study with Bertram Wyatt-Brown at the University of Florida. He is working on a book on the coastal South from Virginia to Texas.
Thomas Ruys Smith is senior lecturer in American literature and culture at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain (Louisiana State UP, 2007) and Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century (Continuum, 2011). He...
