Material Textualities

This area of the graduate curriculum consolidates the department's current strengths in media and language studies, broadly conceived. The Material Textualities concentration include a wide array of interpretive and creative approaches to the materiality of texts in multiple medias, incorporating traditional bibliography and archival skills alongside critical, theoretically informed examinations of old and new media, including the various histories of language and writing.

Personnel


Michelle Ballif

Emeritus Faculty


Cynthia Turner Camp

Associate Professor


Elizabeth Davis

Senior Academic Professional


Sujata Iyengar

Distinguished Research Professor


Miriam Jacobson

Associate Professor


Nate Kreuter

Associate Professor


Casie LeGette

Associate Professor


J. R. Mattison

Assistant Professor


Richard Menke

Professor


J. D. Sargan

Assistant Professor


Fran Teague

Emeritus Faculty


Beth Tobin

Professor

Research Spotlight


Southern Studies

Although often stereotyped as the “nation’s other,” the South has participated in every military conflict since the Civil War, and like the nation,  has been transformed by the rise of cities, multinational corporations, and webbed systems of transportation and communication.  …

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