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Stephen Monroe is chair and assistant professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. He is an affiliated faculty member in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a steering committee member at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. Monroe serves as director of the … Continued

Susan Nicholas is an instructor of composition and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, where she gets to teach writing to her favorite group of people—first-year college students. She also coordinates the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing.

Jodi Skipper is associate professor of anthropology and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is coeditor of Navi­gating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a US Region and, most recently, author of Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the US South. In Behind the Big House, Skipper asks the question, “When … Continued

Sheila Sundar is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi. Her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Habitations is her debut novel.

Michael X. Wang is an assistant professor in the University of Mississippi Department of English. He was born in Fenyang, a small coal-mining city in China’s mountainous Shanxi Province. Wang immigrated to the United States when he was six and has lived in ten states. He holds a PhD in literature from Florida State University … Continued