Contributors
- Contributors
Rhonda Jenkins Armstrong is Assistant Professor of English at Augusta State University in Georgia. Her current research interest is in the role of dead bodies in southern texts. She has previously published on the poetry of Frank X Walker.
Katharine A. Burnett is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the recipient of a 2012-2013 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS dissertation completion fellowship for her project, "The Dixie Plantation State: Antebellum Fiction and Global Capitalism."
Jean W. Cash is professor emerita of English at James Madison University, where she continues to teach one upper level course in Southern Literature each semester. Cash is the author of Larry Brown, A Writer's Life (2011). She also wrote Flannery O'Connor, A Life (2002) and was co-editor of Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South (2008).
Julia Eichelberger is Professor of English at the College of Charleston. Previous publications include Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual In Novels by Ellison, Morrison, Bellow, and Welty (LSU, 1999) and essay reviews and articles in The Eudora Welty Review, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, and The Southern Quarterly. Another essay on Welty is forthcoming in Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race (U of Georgia P). Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 will be published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Chad M. Jewett is a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut. His dissertation focuses on twentieth century African American literature and progressive modernism in the changing Southern narrative.
Carl Plasa is a Reader in English Literature in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar (U of Liverpool P, 2009), Charlotte Brontë (Palgrave, 2004) and [End Page 150] Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification (Macmillan, 2000). He is presently completing a further monograph provisionally entitled Following the Middle Passage: Currents in Literature since 1945.
Donald M. Shaffer, Jr. is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Mississippi State University. His research examines the socio-historical construction of race in African American Literature. His most recent article, "African American Folklore as Racial Project in Charles W Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman," will appear in the forthcoming winter issue of The Western Journal of Black Studies.He is currently working as co-editor on a volume of essays that will explore the intersection of law and culture in the social construction of whiteness. He would like to thank Drs. Ted Atkinson and Stan Spurlock for their insightful comments and suggestions as he prepared this essay for publication.
Mary Schuhriemen will receive her MA in English from the Catholic University of America in May 2013. Her research interests include the concept of identity in the Northern and Southern American Renaissances.
Rhoda Sirlin is Lecturer of English at Queens College (CUNY) where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in American literature. She is the co-editor of William Styron's Sophie's Choice: A Contemporary Casebook, and author of William Styron's Sophie's Choice: Crime & Self-Punishment, and the Instructor's Manual for The Borzoi Book of Short Fiction. Her essays have appeared in Studies in American Jewish Literature, Novels for Students, Modern Critical Interpretations: William Styron, and The Southern Literary Review.
Daniel Cross Turner is Assistant Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. He is author of Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South (University of Tennessee Press, 2012). His numerous articles appear in edited collections as well as journals including Mosaic, Genre, Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, and Southern Quarterly. His current project is editing, along with Eric Gary Anderson and Taylor Hagood, a collection of essays titled Undead Souths, which considers literature, films, and other media that explore diverse Southern representations [End Page 151] of death and deathways, (from funerary rites and burial mounds to ghosts, zombies, vampires, etc.), in a variety of historical and intercultural contexts. He is co-editor of the Southern literature listserv on H-Net (H-Southern-Lit).
Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at...
