Agee at 100: Centennial Essays on the Works of James Agee

Contributors

ContrIButors Paul Ashdown, Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the editor of the forthcoming Journalism volume in the scholarly edition of The Works of James Agee. He edited James Agee: Selected Journalism (1985 and 2005) and contributed essays on Agee to James Agee: Reconsiderations (1992), A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism (1992), the Encyclopedia Americana (1996), Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee (2007), and the Encyclopedia of American Journalism History (2007). He presented a paper on Agee’s reviews at the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies conference in London in 2010. Jeffrey Couchman is the author of “The Night of the Hunter”: A Biography of a Film (Northwestern University Press, 2009). His articles on film have appeared in American Cinematographer and Journal of Film Preservation. His fiction has been published in such journals as Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly , and South Carolina Review. A collaborator on screenplays for Imagine Films and Kings Road Entertainment, he has also written the book and lyrics for two musicals: Blood and Fire and Battleship Potemkin (staged in Nashville and New York). He is currently editing three volumes of James Agee’s screenwriting for The Works of James Agee for the University of Tennessee Press. James A. Crank is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches , Louisiana. His articles on Agee have appeared in the Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, and Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, contriBUtors ~ 280 ~ Legend, and Works of James Agee. He is currently working on a monograph on representations of class entitled “Taking Out the Trash: Anxiety, Authenticity and Class in a Century of Southern Literature, 1910–2010.” Andrew Crooke grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and earned his undergraduate degree in English from Cornell University. Currently a doctoral candidate and Presidential Fellow at the University of Iowa, he is writing a dissertation on ethics and esthetics in representations of the rural poor. Jeffrey J. Folks has taught in Europe,America, and Japan, most recently as Professor of Letters in the Graduate School of Doshisha University. He has published numerous books and articles on American literature, including FromRichardWrighttoToniMorrison:EthicsinModern&PostmodernAmerican Narrative (2001), In a Time of Disorder: Form and Meaning in Southern Fiction from Poe to O’Connor (2003), Damaged Lives: Southern and Caribbean Narrative from Faulkner to Naipaul (2005), and Heartland of the Imagination: Conservative Values in American Literature from Poe to O’Connor to Haruf (2011). His articles on American literature and culture have appeared in many journals, including Modern Age, Southern Literary Journal, and Papers on Language and Literature. Dwight Garner is a book critic for the New York Times.Aformer senior editor of the New York Times Book Review, he was the founding books editor of Salon.com. His writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the Oxford American, Slate, The Nation and the TLS. He is at work on a biography of James Agee to be published by Little, Brown. Jesse Graves teaches writing and literature classes at East Tennessee State University, where he is an Assistant Professor of English. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee and a MFA in poetry from Cornell University. His poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, South Carolina Review, and Tar River Poetry. He recently served as guest editor for a special issue of the Southern Quarterly on “The Poetry and Prose of Robert Morgan.” contriBUtors ~ 281 ~ MichaelA.LofaroisLindsayYoungProfessorofAmericanLiteratureand American Studies at the University of Tennessee. His latest edited book is Southern Manuscript Sermons before 1800: A Bibliography (2010). His work on Agee includes the editing of James Agee: Reconsiderations (1992), co-editing James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Other New Manuscripts (2005) with Hugh Davis, and editing Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee (2007) and volume 1 of The Works of James Agee, A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author’s Text (2007). He serves as the general editor of the scholarly edition of Agee’s works for the University of Tennessee Press. David Madden is Robert Penn Warren Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University. Poet, playwright, critic, and novelist, he has published many short stories, several of which have been reprinted in numerous college...