All Outputs (12)

Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis (2024)
Journal Article

Engaging young people with the effects and potential future impacts of climate crisis is essential for facilitating the changes required. These topics and their consequences can be overwhelming, and the emotional responses equally diverse, from anxie... Read More about Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis.

Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing (2019)
Book

Gothic Appalachia (2016)
Book Chapter

This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘... Read More about Gothic Appalachia.

William Gay, agrarianism and environmentalism (2015)
Journal Article

Reading race and miscegenation in The Sound and The Fury (2014)
Book Chapter

Poverty and progress (2013)
Book Chapter

The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy (2013)
Journal Article

This article explores the ways that Rick Bragg memorializes poor white men's labor across his memoir trilogy, examining the tensions that arise as he attempts to bring poor whites into the center of the southern community. I consider the neo-Agrarian... Read More about The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy.

Poor whites in recent southern fiction (2012)
Journal Article

Poor white characters have appeared throughout southern fiction in a number of guises. This article examines the ways in which contemporary depictions of poor whites challenge earlier one-dimensional accounts of this economically disenfranchised grou... Read More about Poor whites in recent southern fiction.

Accessing blood-knowledge in Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order (2009)
Journal Article

The green, green hills of home: Representations of mining in appalachian and welsh fiction (2007)
Book Chapter

The Secret Country: Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction (2007)
Book

The secret country: Prohibited desire and social change in Jayne Anne Phillips' "Bess" (2002)
Journal Article