Contributors
- Contributors
Alexandra Blair is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature at the University of Mississippi. Her dissertation will analyze American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of affect theory.
Mae Miller Claxton is an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University, where she teaches classes in Southern, Appalachian, and American literature. She is the author of Conversations with Dorothy Allison (UP of Mississippi, 2012). Her work has appeared in Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, the Eudora Welty Review, and the South Atlantic Review.
Daryl Cumber Dance is Emerita Professor of English, University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of several books on African American and Caribbean folklore and literature, including Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans; Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor; New World Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers; and From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore.
Jordan J. Dominy is an assistant professor of English at Savannah State University, where he teaches classes in American literature, literary criticism, and popular culture. His essays have been published or are forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly, American Studies, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal. His current book project explores relationships between the study of southern literature and Cold War culture.
Jolene Hubbs is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Alabama. She has published articles on Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor. Her current book project looks at representations of poor whites in twentieth-century southern literature.
Donnie McMahand is an assistant professor at Tennessee State University. His publications include essays on the literary treatment of Emmett Till and racial and sexual otherness in works by Eudora Welty. His current research investigates shifting representations of contemporary Southern black subjectivity. [End Page 146]
Christopher Metress is University Professor and Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University. He has written widely on the intersection of southern literature and history, and his most recent publication, “The White Southern Novel and the Civil Rights Movement,” appeared in the Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature.
Gary Richards is an associate professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, where he chairs the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication. He is the author of Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction 1936–1961 (Louisiana State UP, 2005) and has published essays in a range of journals and collections, including The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South. He is currently working on a study of literary representations of gay New Orleans.
Ieva Padgett is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Emory University. Her dissertation on the garden motif in postbellum southern United States literature explores how literary gardens engage with broader aesthetic and ideological issues.
Daniel Stein is a professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany, and director of the DFG research project “Serial Politicization: On the Cultural Work of American City Mysteries, 1844– 1860.” He is the author of Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz (U of Michigan P, 2012) and the co-editor of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative (De Gruyter, 2015).
Stephanie Tsank is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Iowa. She has written about empire, visual culture, and race in the works of Charles Chesnutt and Mark Twain. Her dissertation considers the motif of food in American literary realism. [End Page 147]
