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  • Contributors

Bernard L. Herman is the George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper (2011) and Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett (2016). He has published essays, curated exhibitions, lectured, and offered courses on visual and material culture, architectural history, self-taught and vernacular art, foodways, culture-based economic development, and seventeenth and eighteenth-century material life. His current book projects include Drum Head Stew: The South You Never Ate and Troublesome Things in the Borderlands of American Art.

Eric Janken is a recent graduate of Appalachian State University, where he won the 2014 Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship in Creative Writing. His work also has been published in The Peel and the Journal of Microliterature.

Bryce Lankard has been immersed in photography his entire adult life as an editorial and fine art photographer, as an art director, photo editor, educator, curator and principal photographer, from New Orleans to New York City. He was a co-founder and creative director of the award-winning Tribe Magazine in New Orleans and following Hurricane Katrina he co-founded the non-profit New Orleans Photo Alliance.

Marko Maunula (PhD UNC, 2004) is a Scandinavian-Southerner, who moved from his native Finland to Georgia in 1992. He works as a historian at Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta. His research interests deal mostly with southern culture, economy, and the region’s interaction with the world.

Meredith McCarroll is the Director of Writing and Rhetoric at Bowdoin College’s Center for Learning and Teaching. Prior to moving to Maine, McCarroll established and directed the Writing Center at Clemson University and earned a PhD in English from the University of Tennessee.

James McNaughton’s essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Modernism/ modernity, as well as in book collections and other journals. He teaches English at the University of Alabama, where currently he is finishing a book on Samuel Beckett.

Michael McFee has taught poetry writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1990. He is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently That Was Oasis (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), a full-length collection, and The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press, 2007), a chapbook of one-line poems. His fifteenth book and second collection of essays, Appointed Rounds, which contains several pieces first published in Southern Cultures, is forthcoming from Mercer University Press.

Philip McFee is the founder and principal of Flying Hand Studio, a boutique design and illustration company based in Cleveland, Ohio. He also serves as an adjunct creative director for the Carolina Quarterly and Bull City Press in Durham, North Carolina.

Natalie Nelson (cover artist) is an illustrator who draws, paints, bikes, and eats in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. Her first picture book, The King of the Birds, a tale inspired by the life and bird-collecting habits of Flannery O’Connor, will be published this fall with Groundwood Books.

Scott Peeples is Professor and Chair of English at the College of Charleston. He has published numerous essays on nineteenth-century American literature and two highly regarded books on Edgar Allan Poe. Peeples is a past president of the Poe Studies Association and past co-editor of the journal Poe Studies.

Gavin Paul Smith is the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence. He is currently engaged in planning and policy-related research and practice that spans hazard mitigation, disaster recovery, and climate change adaptation, and regularly advises local governments, states, federal agencies, and nations on a range of natural hazards management-related issues. Smith has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and technical reports addressing the linkage between hazards analysis, planning, and sustainable development, including Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework (Island Press, 2011) and, as co-editor, Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning (Springer, 2014).

Michelle Van Parys is a Professor at the College of Charleston in the...

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