NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Mark Camarigg practiced law in California for several years before moving to Mississippi in 2002 to study Southern history, work for Living Blues magazine as a graduate assistant, visit jook joints, and soak up Southern culture. In the spring of 2004, he became publications manager of Living Blues.

Richard Forgette is professor and chair of political science at the University of Mississippi. He holds a PhD from the University of Rochester and previously served as assistant chair at Miami University-Ohio. His research specialization is the U.S. Congress and public policy.

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.

Donald M. Kartiganer holds the William Howry Chair in Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi and is director of the Faulkner Conference. He is the author of The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner’s Novels and is near completion of a book-length study, “Repetition Forward: A Theory of Modernist Reading.”

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 19tth- and 20 th-century South, including William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Sherwood Bonner.

Rebecca Larache Moreton is retired from the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi, where she taught French and linguistics. Her dissertation (Tulane University, 2001) is a linguistic study of Mississippi Gulf French, a variety spoken in the vicinity of Delisle, near Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Nash Molpus received her MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi in May 2004. She received her undergraduate degree at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She is presently working as an intern at the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation.

Ted Ownby holds a joint appointment is 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.

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.

Jimmy Thomas is managing editor of a new edition of the Center’s Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He received BA degrees in English and philosophy at the University of Mississippi and has worked for publications in Oxford and New York.

Annette Trefzer is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She recently completed her book manuscript “Native Americans and National Anxieties in Literature of the Southern Renaissance.” She is coeditor of Reclaiming Native American Identities and author of several essays on Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and other authors.

Angela Watkins, a second-year graduate student in Southern Studies, is assistant producer for Thacker Mountain Radio. She is a talented musician who sings, plays the banjo and guitar, and writes songs and music. After receiving a BA in English literature from the University of the South in 2002, she spent a year working at an environmental education preserve in the mountains of North Carolina.

Bland Whitley, a Southern Studies alumnus (MA 1996), recently earned his PhD in history from the University of Florida. His dissertation was entitled “Precious Memories: Narratives of the Democracy in Mississippi, 1865-1915.” He lives in Atlanta with his wife and fellow Southern Studies alum Sarah Torian.

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.