NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

JOANNE BRANNON ALDRIDGE is a writer and editor
from Boone, North Carolina. She has taught English,
public speaking, classics, and comparative literature at
the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, at
Appalachian State University, and the University of
Georgia.

KENT BAIN is the coordinator for the Mississippi Hills
Heritage Area Alliance. He is a former graphic designer for
Living Blues magazine and former art director for the Oxford
American, Philanthropy, and Weekly Standard magazines.

TOBIE BAKER is a communications specialist for the
Office of Media and Public Relations at the University
of Mississippi. Formerly a newspaper reporter in
Grenada, he received his BS in journalism from the
University of Mississippi in 1996.

PATTI CARR BLACK, founding director of the Old
Capitol Museum, has curated numerous exhibitions,
including Remembering Welty in 2002. Among her
publications are The Southern Writers Quiz Book, Art in
Mississippi, 1720-1980, and Touring Literary Mississippi.

DAVID M. BURNS is the author of Gateway: Dr. Thomas
Walker and the Opening of Kentucky, which has an
introduction by Thomas D. Clark. Burns lives in
Washington, D.C. director of the Faulkner Conference. He is the author of The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner’s Novels andis near completion of a book-length study, “Repetition Forward: A Theory of Modernist Reading.”

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.

MICHAEL DAVENPORT, a retired teacher who lives near
Greenville, Tennessee, taught Advanced Placement
English and Great Books courses for 30 years. He was a
Saks Fellow at the 2001 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Conference and is currently writing fiction and working
on some editing projects.

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.

CINDY SHEFFIELD MICHAELS, a native Mississippian,
received a BA in Spanish from Hendrix College. She is
currently working on an MA in English at Georgia State
University, where she serves as associate editor of the
Eudora Welty Newsletter and the editorial and production
assistant for Studies in the Literary Imagination.

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.

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.