Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...strikes him back, and he goes down—a man of great will but little strength. The screen flashes with visions of glaciers melting; Hushpuppy transfers her teacher's parable onto her father's...
Welcome!
...scholarship, and share great tools and vexing questions. Discuss contemporary and significant issues in the study of the US South. From the redistricting of Texas, to the announcement of a...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Atlanta in 1968.11"What's Happening!!!," Great Speckled Bird 1, no. 11 (August 1968), 15. The Work of Memory Flash Focusing on selected personal stories and local events, the John Q collective...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...Black. (Herndon at that time was just a little over a year away from launching his greatest venture: Atlanta Life Insurance Company.) To circumvent racial restriction in the American theater,...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...like the gravestones of my kin, but the a cappella hymn sung by my great-aunt, this years before the Smithsonian taped her voice as if the song of some vanishing...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...really great wiki-edit-a-thon. In my other position at Emory, as a fellow in the Digital Scholarship Commons, I worked with Moya Bailey and Sarita Alami to coordinate THATCamp (The Humanities...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...York was a poet of great vision and a deeply humane intelligence. His work to chart the history of his native South and the civil rights movement—its violence and erasures—represents...