Work
...facility. She received a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as an arts and education...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...
Bricking the Church
...the Westward Expansion, 2011. In 2010 a special issue of Southern Quarterly, edited by Jesse Graves, was devoted to essays about his work. He has been awarded the James G....
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...sophistication should come from a small Southern town,” Michael Lachowski, bassist for Pylon, told the Washington Post in 1984. This sense of surprise worked in favor of early Athens bands,...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...the southern land and its history. My series have dealt with Civil War landscapes, southern rivers, southern ruins and the Carolina Low Country. My method of working is to use...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
Video and Essay https://player.vimeo.com/video/269927353?byline=0&portrait=0 Ryan Gainey with cut flowers, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...2006) he explored the sensory dynamics of racialization in the American South. In The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, he turns his attention to the Civil War. Smith...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...to New Orleans as being "south of the South."22Nicholas R. Spitzer, "The Creole State: An Introduction to Louisiana Traditional Culture," Louisiana's Living Traditions, 1985. The relative worldliness of the city...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...common, fluid border in the geographic regions of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Rio Grande and Pecos Railway Company, Detail of a map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...