New Directions in Southern Studies
The University of North Carolina Press and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture are pleased to announce New Directions in Southern Studies, a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection of books that seeks to point scholarship on the American South toward new areas of research, guiding critical discussion about the goals and methods of southern studies. The series will offer fresh approaches to the study of southern history and society, publishing books that explore the interface of traditional disciplines and new topics and methods to enrich the study of the region. The series seeks works on the twentieth century that address the cultural dimensions of such areas as literature, music, art, folklife, documentary studies, race relations, gender, religion, ethnicity, the environment, language, and social class. We invite works by both established and younger scholars.
The first two books in the series are Wounds of Returning by Jessica Adams [More information] and Ordering the Facade by Katherine Henniger [More information]. Both volumes are available from UNC Press.
The editor for the series is Charles Reagan Wilson, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and professor of history, University of Mississippi. Assisting him is an advisory board of Robert Brinkmeyer, University of Arkansas; Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia; Anne Goodwyn Jones, University of Florida; Charles Marsh, University of Virginia; Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi, Tom Rankin, Duke University; Jon Michael Spencer, University of South Carolina; Allen Tullos, Emory University; Patricia Yaeger, University of Michigan.
The series is devoted to opening new lines of analysis of the American South and to becoming a site for redefining southern studies through encouraging new interpretations of the regionŐs past and present experience.