Notes on Contributors 

WARREN ABLES is first year M.A. student in Southern Studies who graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.A. in History. He is currently researching his thesis on the cotton picker and its historical impact on the Mississippi Delta.

ROBERT H. BRINKMEYER JR. is professor and chair of English at the University of Arkansas. Among his publications are Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West, Katherine Anne Porter’s Artistic Development, The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor, and Three Catholic Writers of the Modern South.

KATE COCHRAN is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Mississippi. Her scholarly interests include 20th-century American literature, Southern literature, and myth & allegory. She has essays forthcoming in the New Hibernia Review and the Southern Literary Journal.

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. His articles have appeared in Food & Wine, Gourmet, and other publications.

AMY EVANS is a first-year Southern Studies graduate student from Houston, Texas. She received her B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1993 and is applying her experience as an artist and art educator to her work at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

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 W. 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.

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 AmericanDrama: 1945-Present.

PRESTON LAUTERBACH is a first-year graduate student in the Southern Studies Program at the University of Mississippi. He is a graduate of Flagler College and is pursuing his interest in documentary studies.

MARY ANN NEELEY has been executive director of Old Alabama Town in Montgomery, Alabama, for more than two decades. She is the author of several publications on the history and culture of Montgomery and central Alabama.

ELAINE H. SCOTT is former chair of the Arkansas State Board of Education and a member of the Education Commission of the States 1987-1997. She is editor of the Ledbetter Monograph Series at the Center for Arkansas Studies at UALR.

HILARY SHUGHART is the coordinator of the Oxford Homeschool Network. Born in Boston, she grew up in India, Turkey, and Indonesia. After studying in New York, at the Sorbonne, and in Virginia, she settled in Oxford with her husband and two sons, Willie and Frank.

RANA WALLACE is a second-year graduate student in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. She received her B.A. in English from the Florida State University in 1999. She was an intern at the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the summer of 2001.

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.

CHARLES WOLFE is the author of Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in Tennessee, Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky, and numerous other publications. He teaches in the English Department at Middle Tennessee State University.