Contributors

Mark Camarigg practiced law in California before moving to Mississippi in 2002 to study Southern history and work for Living Blues magazine as a graduate assistant. He is now publications manager of Living Blues.

Joan Wylie Hall teaches in the English Department at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction and articles on many Southern authors.

Jessica B. Harris, the author of eight cookbooks on the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora, has written book reviews, theatre reviews, and travel and feature articles for numerous publications. She is an English professor at Queens College, City University of New York.

Colby H. Kullman is professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Among his publications are articles on Tennessee Williams and other modern dramatists, Theatre Companies of the World, and a book of interviews with American playwrights.

Pearl A. McHaney teaches at Georgia State University and edits the Eudora Welty Newsletter. She is editor of A Writer's Eye, a collection of Welty's book reviews, and a book of writers' reflections on Welty's work .

Kathryn McKee is McMullan associate professor of Southern Studies and associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She has published essays and lectured about writers of the 19th- and 20th-century South, including William Faulkner and Bobbie Ann Mason.

Rankin Sherling, from Yazoo City, Mississippi, is a master's student in the University of Mississippi's History Department. He is writing his thesis on the Irish immigrant experience in the American South and plans to continue his studies, persuing a PhD in history.

Jennifer Southall is a communications specialist for the Office of Media and Public Relations at the University of Mississippi. She taught high school English and worked as a magazine editor before returning to the University, where she received a BA in English.

Christopher L. Stacey is a PhD student in the history program at the University of Mississippi. He is writing a dissertation on antebellum and Civil War poor relief.

David Wharton is assistant professor and director of documentary projects at the Center, where he teaches courses in Southern Studies, fieldwork, and photography. He is the author of The Soul of a Small Texas Town: Photographs, Memories, and History from McDade.

Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center and professor of history and Southern Studies. Among his publications are Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause and Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis.

Steve Yates, of Flowood, Mississippi, has published fiction in many journals and has short stories forthcoming in the Southwest Review, the Texas Review, and Louisiana Literature.