An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Regional Studies

Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History

Ellen Griffith Spears, University of Alabama
18 February 2013
article

The Place of Appalachia

Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  

Stephen L. Fisher, Emory and Henry College
31 January 2013
article

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

Tom Rankin, Duke University
11 September 2012
review

Uncovering Confederate Literary Nationalism: A Review of Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes

Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
17 July 2012
review

A Conversation with Digital Historians

Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
Andrew J. Torget, University of North Texas
Scott Nesbit, University of Richmond
31 January 2012
article

A Mess of Poke

Allison O. Adams, Decatur, Georgia
17 October 2011
article

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

Peter H. Wood, Duke University
10 October 2011
review

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley, Poet
22 September 2011
presentation

Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion

Lisa Brooks, Harvard; Michael Elliott, Emory; Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence; Elvira Pulitano, California Polytechnic; Craig Womack, Emory
21 June 2011
presentation

Whiskey and Geography

Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Duke University
9 May 2011
article

An Oyster by Any Other Name

Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of Texas, Austin
18 April 2011
review

Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the U.S. South

William Brown, Emory University

Mary Odem, Emory University
16 February 2011
article

Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic

Jennifer Rae Greeson, University of Virginia
22 November 2010
presentation

New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South

Jamie Winders, Syracuse University

Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
4 November 2010
article

"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions

Brian C. Campbell, University of Central Arkansas
20 September 2010
article

Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing

Laurie Kay Sommers, Independent Scholar
17 August 2010
article

The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation

Steve Suitts, Southern Education Foundation
29 June 2010
article

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University
25 June 2010
presentation

Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels' A Southerner Discovers the South

Jennifer Ritterhouse, George Mason University
20 May 2010
article

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

Patricia A. Suchy and James V. Catano, Louisiana State University
27 April 2010
article

"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri

Jarod Roll, University of Sussex
16 March 2010
article

Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

Mikko Saikku, University of Helsinki
28 January 2010
article

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

Cameron B. LeBlanc, Emory University
22 December 2009
article

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University
10 December 2009
presentation

Bodies and Souls

Christie Herring, Independent Filmmaker
30 November 2009
short video

Single Centers of Creation?

Nancy Lowe, Independent Artist
30 November 2009
article

An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"

Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina University
28 May 2009
article

The U.S. South and the 2008 Election

Joseph Crespino, Emory University
11 December 2008
article

John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival

Scott L. Matthews, Hollins University
6 August 2008
article

Mapping Souths

Scott Romine, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
25 June 2008
article

Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997–2007

Matt Miller, Emory University
10 June 2008
article

Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies

Michael Moon, Emory University
16 May 2008
article

"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence

Brent M. S. Campney, Emory University
6 September 2007
article

On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession

Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University
9 August 2007
article

The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape

William G. Thomas III, University of Nebraska
Brooks Miles Barnes, Eastern Shore Public Library; Tom Szuba, University of Virginia
31 July 2007
article

Latinos, the American South, and the Future of U.S. Race Relations

George Sanchez, University of Southern California
26 April 2007
presentation

A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism

John Egerton, Nashville, Tennessee
29 November 2006
presentation

Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination

Joseph Crespino, Emory University
23 October 2006
presentation

Regions of Alabama

Wayne Flynt, Auburn University
3 October 2005
presentation

Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies

Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
14 December 2004
presentation

The Carolina Piedmont

Allen Tullos, Emory University
27 July 2004
article

The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Robert Jackson, U. of Virginia; Edward A. Shannon, Ramapo College of New Jersey; Adam Tate, Stillman College; Art Taylor, George Mason U.
21 June 2004
presentation

The Shenandoah Valley

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
20 April 2004
article

The Black Belt

Allen Tullos, Emory University
19 April 2004
article

The Border South

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
16 April 2004
article

The Chesapeake Bay

William G. Thomas III, University of Virginia
16 April 2004
article

Mississippi Delta

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
4 April 2004
article

Overview: Religion and the U.S. South

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
16 March 2004
article

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

Steve Bransford, Emory University
16 March 2004
article

Cajun South Louisiana

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
12 March 2004
article

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
1 March 2004
article

Local Color

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
29 February 2004
article

Music of the Louisiana Gulf Coast

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
26 February 2004
article

Genres of Southern Literature

Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
16 February 2004
article