Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...responsibility to LGBTQ+ subjects Queer theory and feminist theory (pasts, presents, futures) Reconsidering the queer theory canon (Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, and other foundational theorists) Social Justice and Public Policy Violence,...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...in favor of making these spaces comprehensible to visitors who didn't know much about them. These were cityscapes I photographed as populated by strangers who are there only temporarily ("just...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...
At Cornwall Furnace
Cherokee County, Alabama Blown out just after The War. The stack's granite gapes. Each year saplings try, as gravity has longer, a reclamation masonry won't allow. Lichens and moss do...
The State House Aflame 1833
...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...and in space. Southern Spaces' forthcoming series, on "Spatial Justice," promises to expand these horizons. About the Author Ellen Griffith Spears is assistant professor in the interdisciplinary New College and...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....