Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...States, as an unmitigated statement intended especially for our colleagues in literary and cultural studies and for those in the multiple disciplines in Africana and related studies. Our message is...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...in the aggregate, and in multiple ways, including the familiar forms of maps and timelines, but also in more abstract digital displays. My involvement began with the Modern Language Association...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...City,” Huntsville, this was a region without gigantic airports, gleaming bank headquarters, tangled roadways, and spaghetti junctions. By the 1970s, when several band members reached high school, it was a...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...have pointed out how slave society was divided along lines of gender, between town and country, and African ethnicity. The human geography of rural neighborhoods demarcated another faultline. Slave society...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...like the music, was the air that his ears breathed. This being said, it would be wrong not to acknowledge that this southern literary emergence in 1929—so surprising to the...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...lines with the trees, sometimes downed trees dissect the frame horizontally. Other images don't have strong leading lines. The ones with algae or grasses are more abstract, ethereal. Sometimes there's...
World's Fair Amphitheater, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2010
Spencer's Inc., Mount Airy, North Carolina, 2010
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...