Fred Hobson Author & Editor

Fred Hobson is Professor of English and Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of, among other works, Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain (LSU, l983), Mencken: A Life (Random House, 1994), But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative (LSU, 1999), and The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays (LSU, 2005). He edits the Southern Literary Studies series at Louisiana State University Press and is co-editor, with Minrose Gwin, of the Southern Literary Journal. Barbara Ladd is Professor of English at Emory University. She is the author of Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (LSU 1996) and Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (LSU 2007).