CONTRIBUTORS

Marion Barnwell is a fiction writer who taught English at Delta State University for many years. She is editor of the anthology A Place Called Mississippi and coauthor of Touring Literary Mississippi. She is a member of the board of governors of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.

Randy Cross received his PhD in English from the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor, with John McMillan, of Laughing Stock: The Autobiography of T. S. Stribling and the author of introductions for three of Stribling’s novels, all reprinted by the University of Alabama Press. He has published in American Literature, South Atlantic Review, and the Mark Twain Journal. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, he currently teaches English at Calhoun Community College in Decatur, Alabama.

Amy Evans is oral historian for the Southern Foodways Alliance. She is also an exhibiting artist, freelance photographer, and cofounder of Piece Works, a nonprofit arts and outreach organization. She received an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi.

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 Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Grace King, Frances Newman, and other authors.

Patricia Hawkins-Brown is a professional public relations specialist and was a founder of the Advertising Federation of Columbus, Mississippi. She is a leader in cultural and political activities in Columbus-Lowndes County.

Donald M. Kartiganer holds the William Howry Chair in Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi and is director of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. He is the author of The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner’s Novels and is coeditor of Theories of American Literature and seven volumes of proceedings of the Faulkner Conference.

Clint Kimberling is the publicist at the University Press of Mississippi. He graduated from Millsaps College in 2005 with a degree in English and lives in Jackson.

Christina Lopez is a senior marketing communications major from Pascagoula and is an intern at the University’s Office of Media and Public Relations.

Sally Cassady Lyon is a Gulfport native and Sewanee graduate. She lives in Oxford with her husband, Dalton, an orange tabby cat, Patty MacTavish, and a dog, Scout. She is the Center's Web master.

Kathryn McKee is McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She has published articles about various Southern writers, including Sherwood Bonner, William Faulkner, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Josephine Humphreys. She recently coedited a special issue of the journal American Literature called “Global Contexts, Local Literatures,” and she is currently coediting a volume about representations of the South in film.

Panny Flautt Mayfield, an award-winning photographer and journalist, is director of public relations at Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She is a founder and coordinator of the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival, a charter member and publicist for Clarksdale’s Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival, and a member of the board of directors of the Mississippi Historical Society.

Ted Ownby, interim director of the Center, holds a joint appointment in Southern Studies and History. He is the author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1965–1920 and American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998. He is working on a book about the conflicting definitions of family life in the 20th-century South.

Bridget Pieschel is professor of English and director of the Southern Women’s Institute at the Mississippi University for Women. She also directs the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, an annual event to honor
MUW’s most famous alumna.

Charles Reagan Wilson is Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920, editor of Religion in the South, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. His other publications include a collection of essays titled Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis.