SCOTT ROMINE is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of The Narrative Forms of Southern Community and The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction, and coeditor of Keywords for Southern Studies (Georgia). He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. ERICH NUNN is assistant professor of English at Auburn University and a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University’s Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His work has been published in the Faulkner Journal; The Mark Twain Annual; Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts; Studies in American Culture; and in the edited collection, Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities. KEITH CARTWRIGHT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales; Junkanoo: A Christmas Pageant; and Saint-Louis: A Wool Strip-Cloth for Sekou Dabo. KEITH CARTWRIGHT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales; Junkanoo: A Christmas Pageant; and Saint-Louis: A Wool Strip-Cloth for Sekou Dabo. LEIGH ANNE DUCK is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis. MARTYN BONE is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction, editor of Perspectives on Barry Hannah, and coeditor of Creating and Consuming the American South. HOUSTON A. BAKER JR. is a professor of English at Duke University. Among his honors and achievements in American letters, Baker is a past president of the Modern Language Association. His books include Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing and Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. HOUSTON A. BAKER JR. is a professor of English at Duke University. Among his honors and achievements in American letters, Baker is a past president of the Modern Language Association. His books include Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing and Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. JOHN T. MATTHEWS is a professor of English at Boston University. His research focuses on American literature, modernist studies, literary theory, and literature of the U.S. South, with special attention to William Faulkner. He is the author of The Play of Faulkner's Language and William Faulkner: Seeing through the South. CLAUDIA MILIAN is an assistant professor of romance studies at Duke University. TED ATKINSON is an associate professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of Mississippi Quarterly. NATALIE J. RING is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is coeditor, with Stephanie Cole, of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South.
