Elaine J Lawless Author

David Todd Lawrence, St. Paul, Minnesota, is associate professor of English at University of St. Thomas. His work has appeared in Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association; The Griot: Official Journal of the Southern Conference on African American Studies; and Southern Folklore. With Elaine J. Lawless, he coproduced the documentary film Taking Pinhook, available on YouTube or at www.RebuildPinhook.org.

Elaine J. Lawless, Columbia, Missouri, is professor emerita at University of Missouri. She is author of six books and coauthor of Troubling Violence: A Performance Project, published by University Press of Mississippi. With David Todd Lawrence, she coproduced the documentary film Taking Pinhook, available on YouTube or at www.RebuildPinhook.org.