An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Literary Biography and Criticism

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

Tom Rankin, Duke University
11 September 2012
review

Uncovering Confederate Literary Nationalism: A Review of Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes

Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
17 July 2012
review

Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else

Jesse Freeman, Filmmaker
26 June 2012
article

Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion

Lisa Brooks, Harvard; Michael Elliott, Emory; Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence; Elvira Pulitano, California Polytechnic; Craig Womack, Emory
21 June 2011
presentation

Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone

Michael Moon and Colin Talley, Emory University
6 December 2010
review

Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic

Jennifer Rae Greeson, University of Virginia
22 November 2010
presentation

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

Allison Hedge Coke, University of Nebraska at Kearney
14 October 2010
presentation

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University
25 June 2010
presentation

Naming Each Place

Jericho Brown, University of San Diego
4 March 2010
presentation

Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869

Peter West, Adelphi University
9 February 2010
article

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
10 December 2009
presentation

Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations

Michael Bibler, The University of Manchester
8 July 2009
presentation

An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"

Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina University
28 May 2009
article

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Patrick Phillips, Drew University
14 April 2009
presentation

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

Margaret T. McGehee, Presbyterian College
9 March 2009
article

The Morning with Many Tongues

Sean Hill, Stanford University
27 February 2009
presentation

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

Rodney Jones, Southern Illinois University
22 January 2009
presentation

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Dan Albergotti, Coastal Carolina University
24 November 2008
presentation

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

Christine McCulloch, Emory University
23 October 2008
article

Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies

Michael Moon, Emory University
16 May 2008
article

Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm

Nancy Marshall, Photographer
28 April 2008
photo essay

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local

Minrose Gwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11 March 2008
presentation

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
7 March 2008
presentation

Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?

Craig Womack, Emory University
20 November 2007
presentation

Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"

Ed Piacentino, High Point University
28 August 2007
article

On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession

Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University
9 August 2007
article

Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story

Craig Womack, University of Oklahoma
17 July 2007
presentation

The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan

John Howard, University of London
22 December 2005
presentation

The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Robert Jackson, U. of Virginia; Edward A. Shannon, Ramapo College of New Jersey; Adam Tate, Stillman College; Art Taylor, George Mason U.
21 June 2004
presentation

Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
4 March 2004
article

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
1 March 2004
article

Local Color

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
29 February 2004
article

Genres of Southern Literature

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
16 February 2004
article