Patti
Carr Black, founding director of the Old
Capitol Museum, has curated numerous exhibitions,
the most recent being Remembering Welty.
Among her publications are The Southern Writers
Quiz Book, Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980,
and Touring Literary Mississippi.
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.
Andrea Finley
worked and studied in California for several years
after receiving her M.A. in Southern Studies in
1995. She recently returned to her home state as
managing editor of the Mississippi Encyclopedia.
Adam Gussow is assistant professor
of English and Southern Studies. He is the author
of Mister Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir,
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and
the Blues Tradition,
and articles in Georgia Review, Literary
Review, Village Voice, and many other
publication.
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.
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.
Kathryn McKee is McMullan assistant
professor of Southern Studies and assistant
professor of English. She has published essays and
lectured on Ellen Glasgow, Kaye Gibbons, Bobbie
Ann Mason, and other authors.
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.
Noel
Polk,
professor of English at the University of Southern
Mississippi; is the author or editor of over a
dozen volumes, including, most recently, Outside
the Southern Myth, Children of the Dark
House, and Reading Faulkner: “The
Sound and the Fury.”
