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  • Contributors

Amanda Freeman earned her M.A. from James Madison University. Her research focuses on the Rough South and considerations of class in southern literature and southern studies.

Nicholas Mohlmann is an assistant professor of English at the University of West Florida. His work focuses on the development of corporate and amateur literature in colonial America, particularly Virginia.

William C. Palmer is a Ph.D. student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Mississippi. His scholarship focuses on the ways sound and literature operate to construct understandings of the environment and race in modernity.

Robert Rea teaches courses in American literature at the University of Mississippi. His writing has appeared in Southwest Review, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, and the Southern Literary Journal. He is working on a book-length study of Tennessee Williams.

Joseph M. Thompson is a doctoral candidate in the University of Virginia's Corcoran Department of History. His dissertation, "Sounding Southern: Music, Militarism, and the Making of the Sunbelt," uses popular music to analyze the cultural impact of the military–industrial complex on constructions of race, politics, and region since World War II.

Matt Wanat is an associate professor of English at Ohio University Lancaster. A scholar of literature and cinema studies, Wanat's recent publications include articles on place-based literature, an essay collection on Breaking Bad, and a forthcoming collection on Clint Eastwood, the latter two works co-edited with Leonard Engel. [End Page 209]

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