Univ. of Georgia Press: The New Southern Studies


The New Southern Studies Jon Smith and Rich Richardson, Series Editors	(Smith) phone: 205-665-6424 email: smithjr@montevallo.edu (Richardson) phone: 530-752-4295 email: rrichardson@ucdavis.edu Download the series flyer
After decades of being both celebrated and dismissed as the exception within American exceptionalism, the Southis emerging as central to debates in fields ranging from American Studies and African American Studies to culturalstudies and postcolonial theory. Engaged with these debates from the outset, the new Southern Studies, as Houston A. Baker Jr. named the field, thus only secondarily reinvigorates the old. Rather, as its scholars look at the Southafresh, their chief aim is a floor-to-ceiling rethinking of some of the central ideas of the last twenty years of criticaltheory: objecthood, identity, space, nation, region, abjection, the body, empire. The books in this interdisciplinary,methodologically rigorous, and iconoclastic series will, as a result, engage scholars and students in a wide varietyof fields. Jon Smith is an assistant professor of English at the University of Montevallo. His chief scholarly interests involve the study of the U.S. South from global, cultural-studies, and postcolonial perspectives to interrogate both American exceptionalism in American Studies and careless divisions between global north and global south in postcolonial theory. Smith is the coeditor of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies and several special journal issues on the South. His work has appeared in American Literature, American Literary History, and other scholarly publications. Rich Richardson, an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis, has ongoing interests in the role of the South in formations of identity in the African American context, transnational and diasporan perspectives in southern studies, and African American literature. Her book on black southern masculinity is forthcoming in The New Southern Studies series, and she is also working on a number of other book projects, including one on southern rap. She has published essays in journals such as American Literature, the Mississippi Quarterly, and the Forum for Modern Language Studies. Series Advisory Board
Houston A. Baker Jr. Vanderbilt University Jennifer Greeson Princeton University Trudier Harris University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Tara McPherson University of Southern California John T. Matthews Boston University Scott Romine University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Coming Soon Disturbing Calculations The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-200 Melanie R. Benson	Now Available Grounded Globalism How the U.S. South Embraces the World James L. Peacock

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