Notes on Contributors

Scott Barretta is editor of Living Blues magazine.

Garreth C. Blackwell is a journalism major at the University of Mississippi. 

William Boozer, of Nashville, has been a frequent visitor to Oxford through the years in his role as editor during 1981-2001 of The Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review and as a Faulkner collector and contributor to book pages of the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Nashville Banner. 

John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, writes about Southern food and travel. He is the author of A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South and Southern Belly. 

Susan M. Glisson is assistant director of the Institute for Racial Reconciliation and of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary. 

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.

Andrew C. Harper joined the Center’s staff as coordinator of a National Endowment for the Humanities planning grant and assists with numerous projects. He earned a Ph.D. in history from Northern Arizona University.

Bruce Iglauer was a founder of Living Blues magazine and is the head of Alligator Records. 

Deidra Jackson is a communications specialist for the Office of Communications at the University of Mississippi. Formerly a newspaper reporter and editor in North Carolina, she received her M.A. in journalism from the University in 1995.

Donald W. Kartiganer holds the William Howry Chair in Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi and is director of the Faulkner Conference. 

Jamie Kornegay is a bookseller at Square Books, editor of the store’s Dear Reader newsletter, and a freelance writer. He lives in Water Valley, Mississippi.

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 Speaking on Stage: Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights. He is coeditor of Studies in American Drama: 1945-Present.

Ted Ownby holds a joint appointment in Southern Studies and History. He is the author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 and American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998.

Shane Scara received a B.A. degree from the University of Mississippi, where he majored in journalism and English.

Joseph R. Urgo chairs the English Department at the University of Mississippi.

David Wharton is assistant professor and director of documentary projects at the Center, where is 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.