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1 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Lin Bin holds a PhD from Peking University and specializes in women s literature. She is a professor of English at Xiamen University, P.R. China, who has been researching and writing about Carson McCullers for more than ten years. Bin is the author of Spiritual Isolation and Textual Analysis : A Post-feminist Study of Gothic Elements in Carson McCullers s Fiction of the 1940s (Tianjin People s Press, 2006) and has published several McCullers papers. She is currently writing a monograph about McCullers works to be published by Peking University Press. She is the leader of two major McCullers research projects in China: Studies of Carson McCullers Fiction, Ministry of Education Project of Humanities and Social Sciences; and A Study of McCullers and Southern Writing of Modernity in the US, National Social Science Fund Project of China. In 2013, she worked with the Beatrice Bain Research Group on Carson McCullers: Gender and Southern Modernity at the University of California, Berkeley. Carlos Dews was the founding director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians and the founding president of the Carson McCullers Society. He edited Carson McCullers : Complete Novels for the Library of America and his edition of Carson McCullers unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He is chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. The Author(s) 2016 A. Graham-Bertolini, C. Kayser (eds.), Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century, DOI /

2 270 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Temple Gowan is an M.A. candidate, Department of English, University of Mississippi. Her primary interest as a scholar is how we can improve our ethical relations with both other species and our own by taking the presence of animals in literature seriously. Her master s thesis focuses on the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality with posthumanism in novels by 20th century American authors Carson McCullers, Charles Johnson, and Ruth Ozeki. Alison Graham-Bertolini is an assistant professor of English and Women s Studies at North Dakota State University. She researches and writes about contemporary American literature, especially literature written by women. Her first monograph, Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), is about female protagonists who take extralegal action in response to violence that women experience on a daily basis: domestic violence, restrictive laws, and lack of political recourse. Graham-Bertolini has published in the Eudora Welty Review, The Southern Quarterly, and in a variety of collections. She serves currently as the vice president of the Carson McCullers Society. renée c. hoogland is a professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she teaches contemporary literature and culture, critical theory, visual culture, and queer theory. Hoogland is the editor of Criticism : A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. Her third book, A Violent Embrace : Art and Aesthetics after Representation, was published by the University Press of New England in January Casey Kayser is a clinical assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where she teaches courses in literature and medical humanities. Her research specialties include narrative medicine; modern and contemporary American literature and drama; southern literature, drama, and culture; folklore; and gender studies. Her work has been published in Midwestern Folklore, and she has essays forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly and Pedagogy. She is working on a book focusing on gender, race, and regional identity in the work of southern women playwrights. She currently serves as the President of the Carson McCullers Society. Kiyoko Magome has been teaching at the University of Tsukuba in Japan since Her publications include The Influence of Music on American Literature Since 1890 : A History of Aesthetic Counterpoint (Edwin Mellen, 2008) and Edward Said s Counterpoint ( Paradoxical

3 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 271 Citizenship : Edward Said (Lexington Books, 2006). Supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, ), Magome has been researching modernist musicoliterary quartets and has published Japanese translations of contemporary American novels, such as Claire Vaye Watkins s Battleborn (Iwanami Shoten, 2015). Melanie Masterton Sherazi is a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow in English at UCLA, specializing in twentieth- century modern and contemporary American literature. She is currently working on a study of African American expatriate culture in postwar Rome, with an archival emphasis on the papers of the late author William Demby. She is also developing a project that explores the ethics and aesthetics of posthumously published mid-century literature by such authors as Carson McCullers and Ralph Ellison. Her writing on Faulkner has been published in Mississippi Quarterly, and an article on Ralph Ellison is forthcoming in MELUS. Miho Matsui is a senior assistant professor of English at Sapporo City University, Japan. Her doctoral dissertation at Hokkaido University (2014) was Passing into the Darkness: Sexuality, Race, and Integration of the Segregated in the Works of the Southern Renaissance. She has published several essays on southern writers including Frances Newman, Julia Peterkin, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers in Japanese literary journals. At the Carson McCullers Interdisciplinary Conference in 2011, she presented Exploring Southern Queerness: Desire and Identity in Reflections in a Golden Eye, which was published as an essay titled Reflections in a Filipino s Eye: Southern Masculinity and Colonial Subject in ANQ : A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews in Kristen Proehl is an assistant professor of English at SUNY- Brockport, where she teaches courses in children s and young adult literature. She has recently published articles on Louisa May Alcott s work in two different essay collections: Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Routledge, 2014) and Sentimentalism in Nineteenth- Century America (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013). She is currently revising her book manuscript, Battling Girlhood : Sympathy, Social Justice and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature.

4 272 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Barbara Roche Rico is a professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, where she has taught since She holds a doctorate from Yale University. Her research interests include comparative studies of Renaissance authors and, more recently, work on Nicholasa Mohr, Judith Ortíz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and other writers of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. The textbook she co- edited with Sandra Mano of UCLA, American Mosaic : Multicultural Readings in Context, is in its third edition. She has presented her work at conferences in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and in Mexico. Her other publications include essays in Frontiers : A Journal of Women s Studies (reprinted in Latino/a Writing [Routledge]) and Short Fiction in Theory and Practice. Transatlantic exchange is a focus of her research and teaching, which have been supported by internal and external grants. She has recently completed a term as a member of the National Networking Board of the Lilly Foundation. Stephanie Rountree is a PhD candidate in American literature and Provost s Dissertation Fellow at Georgia State University. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Ethos, Mississippi Quarterly, south, and Word and Text. She serves as co-editor of Small-Screen Souths : Interrogating the Televisual Archive (LSU Press, forthcoming Fall 2017). In 2014, she co-founded the Emerging Scholars Organization, an affiliate of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and served as its inaugural President ( ). Her dissertation, entitled American Corpus: The Subversion of National Biopower in Post-Emancipation Literature, investigates public policies that relegate citizens bodies as mechanisms of U.S. (neo)liberalism in literature and history, Craig Slaven teaches English at Auburn University. He earned his PhD from the University of Kentucky, where he taught classes on southern literature, African- American literature, and the Bible as literature. His dissertation examines the proliferation of cultural narratives of redemption, from Reconstruction through the twentieth century, that helped rebrand the South as the Bible Belt in the popular imaginary. In 2014, he was a participant at Dartmouth s Futures of American Studies Institute and one of three presenters at the St. George Tucker Society s Cleanth Brooks Forum. He currently serves as the Secretary of the Carson McCullers Society.

5 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 273 Carmen Trammell Skaggs, Associate Dean for Academic Support in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, is the author of Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton (LSU Press, 2010). Dr. Skaggs s interest in Carson McCullers developed while she lived in Columbus, Georgia McCullers birthplace while previously serving on the faculty at Columbus State University. Her work on McCullers also appeared in ANQ : A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. Jan Whitt is a professor of literature and media at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the recipient of the 2013 Edward R. Murrow Teaching Award and the 2014 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research and Creative Work awards. She has published numerous journal articles on American literature, media studies, popular culture, and women s issues. Her books include Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel, Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism : Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Dangerous Dreams : Essays on American Film and Television, Rain on a Strange Roof : A Southern Literary Memoir, Reflections in a Critical Eye : Essays on Carson McCullers, Settling the Borderland : Other Voices in Literary Journalism, and Women in American Journalism : A New History. The Redemption of Narrative : Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West (Mercer University Press) is in press. A book about Truman Capote s In Cold Blood (Rowman & Littlefield) is in progress and is part of the Contemporary American Literature series.

6 INDEX A abstract machine, 115, 116, 121 adolescence, 6, 83, 147, 261 adolescent, 5, 12, 13, 21, 69, 74 6, 101, 116, 117, 120, 124, 147, 152, 154, 220, 255, 258, 260 aesthetic, 54, 114, 115, 118, 119, 121, 124, 215, 218, 219, 222, 252 affect, 62, 72, 109, , 148 Albee, Edward, 1, 75 alienation, 13, 209, 210, , 225, 229n7, 230n13, 265n1 animal(s), 33, , 179, 240, 243 Antonapoulos, Spiros, 8, 13, 102, 104, 190, Archive, 29, 43, 44, 51, 53 5, 57, 58, 60, 63 Army Post, 128, 130, 175, 176 Atkinson, Brooks, 4 Auden, W.H., 14, 15, 30, 75 autobiography, 7, 21 4, 26, 28, 30, 31, 43, 44, 49 65, 68, 70 6, 81, 86 B Bach, Peggy, 3 Ballad of the Sad Café, 1, 11, 74, 149, 157, , , , 224, 226, 227, 233 5, 237, 243 becoming, 61, 97, , 128, 135, 151, 163, 192, 241, 255 bildungsroman, 245n3, 255 biopower, , 132 body, 21, 37, 63, 98, 117, 118, 129, 131, 133, 134, 136, 137, 147, 153, 159, 161, 166, 167, 169, 176, 181, 182, 184 6, 195, 201, 215 Britten, Benjamin, 14, 15, 30 Brooklyn, 2, 14, 16, 27, 30, 37, 40, 237, 244n1 Brown vs. Board of Education, 262, 264 C Carr, Virginia, 84, 144, 186 Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate), 2, 6 Carson McCullers Talks About Love, 10 The Author(s) 2016 A. Graham-Bertolini, C. Kayser (eds.), Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century, DOI /

7 276 INDEX cartography, 116, 118, 119, 123 Chinese perspective, 210, 227, 228 citizenship/normative citizenship, 147, , 243 class/classism, 12, 61, 62, 74, 146, 150, 158, 159, 192 4, 223, 235, 243 Clock Without Hands, 22 4, 50, 56, 62, 64n1, 215, 217, Clurman, Harold, 4 cognitive segregation, Cold War, 252, 265n1 collaboration, 5, 6, 108, 110n7 Columbus, Georgia, 10, 11, 23, 29, 30, 53, 61, 62, 72, 73, 83, 85 communal, 14, 15, 210, 222, 225, 226 corporeality, 128, 129, 132, 137 cross-dressing, D Davis, George, 14 16, 30, 176, 179 Deleuze, Gilles, 113, 115, , 124 Derrida, Jacques, 132, 133, 138 desegregation, 61, 252, 265n2 Dews, Carlos, 7, 49 52, 60, 63 dictaphone, 23 5, 45, 49 65, 86, 89 difference, 13, 14, 23, 70, 113, 119, 121, 127, 131 3, 137, 138, , 164, 168, 170, 176, 182, 184, 187, 190, 204, 205, 214, 226 disability, 146, 148, 150 2, 154, 177, 179, 201, 202, 205, 206n3 E event, 52, 58, 68 71, , , 123, 154, 167, 197, 237, 238, 243, 265n2 exceptionalism, 253, 264 F Faulkner, William, 10, 59, 216 February House, 2, 14, 15 femininity, 80, 158, 164 6, 169 Firebird, 133 9, 184 F. Jasmine Addams (play), 5 Flowering Dream, 22, 23, 27, 53 9, 73, 84, 85, 87, 102, 178, 221 fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life, 2, 12 Foucault, Michel, , 139, 146, 158, 170, 181, 189, 203, 204 friendship, 3, 6, 13, 44, 75, 79, 84 7, 93, , 197, 263 fugue, 89, 97 G gaze female gaze, 159, 160, 162, 168 male gaze, , 165, 168 voyeuristic gaze, 159, 167, 168, 170 gender, 12 14, 59, 61, 62, 69, 80, 123, 131, 134, 135, 138, 145, 146, 149, 151 4, , 164, 165, , 177, 180, 194, 195, 214, 228, 241 Georgia, 10, 11, 16, 23, 29, 30, 35, 39, 40, 53, 61, 62, 72 5, 83, 85, 143, 144, 148, 155, 190, 204, 205, 252 Gettysburg address, 264 Gilman, Rebecca, 2, 8 Gleeson-White, Sarah, 62, 129, 133, 136, 137, 164, 177, 187, 195 globalization, 210, 212, 218, 223, Gone With the Wind, 256 Greek, 148, 190, 193, , 202, 203 Gubbins, Sarah, 2, 12, 14

8 INDEX 277 H haecceity, 118, 119 Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 51, 60, 62, 68, 72 6, 80, 81, , 129, , , , 220, 226 Hemingway, Ernest, 69, 214 hermeneutics, Hermes/Mercury, heteronormative/heteronormativity, 57, 60, 175, 178, 179, 184, 195, 203 hierarchy, 133, 187, 224 homosexuality, 145, 147, 152, 175, 177 9, 187, 195, 198, 201, 207n10 horse, 130, 133, 134 8, 184, 185, 265n6 hysteria, 182 I Illumination and Night Glare, 24, 27, 30, 31, 44, 49 65, 86, 97, 237 immigration, innocence, 81, 253 6, 258, institutions, mental/institutionalization, 145, 148, 149, , 194, 198, 199, 202, 203, 207n8, 234 invalid, in-valid, 79, isolation, 9, 12, 75, 84, 99, 186, 204, , 221 3, 227, 230n14, 235 J Jim Crow, 61, 143, 152, 155, 194, 197, 204, 252, 264 K Kallman, Chester, 15 Kelly, Mick, 9, 11, 13, 69, 72, 76, 81, 101, 145, 151, 190, 194, 195 L Lasky, Floria, 6, 25, 26, 28, 29, 42, 57, 64n4 Lee, G.R., 6, 14, 15, 27, 30, 37, 38, 75 Lee, Harper, 10, letters, 2, 7, 8, 16, 22, 25, 27 9, 31, 34, 40 3, 45, 50, 51, 54 8, 60, 61, 84 94, 114, 144, 147, 149, 162, 238, 239, 259 liberalism, 201, 263 life writing, Lincoln, Abraham, 264, 266n9 line of flight, 120, 121 loneliness, 9, 12, 79, Lost Cause, 253, 254 M Madden, David, 3, 4 Mann, Erika, 15 Mann, Theodore, 5 masculinity, 158, 161, 164, 180 McCullers craze, , 223 5, 227, 228 McCullers, Reeves, 15, 22, 50, 51, 58, 69, 75, 175, 221 Member of the Wedding, 1, 3 6, 10, 13, 16, 22, 41, 50, 52, 58, 68, 72 6, 80, 84, 92, 114, 121, 143 5, 148, 152 4, 165, 216, 217 Mercer, Mary, 21, 23 7, 29 31, 42 5, 50, 53, 85, 87, 88, 93 miscegenation, 256 modernity, 131, 210, 221, 223, Mortgaged Heart, 25, 64n4, 73, 217 murder, 58, 68, 104, 175, 176, 179, 180, 186, 187, 218, 259, 262 N Neoliberalism 208 new materialism, 128

9 278 INDEX Nin, Anais, 14 Nyack, 21, 24, 54, 86 P Pears, Peter, 15 Penderton, Captain, 128, 131, 135, 175, , Penderton, Leonora, 133, , 185, 186 postcolonial, 233, 234, 245n7 posthumanism, 128, 139n4 posthumous, 25, 26, 49 65, 86, 99 productive citizenship, productivity, 22, 24, 190, , 205 Q queer, 15, 16, 57, 58, 113, 122, 124, , , , 177, 178, 187, 202, 203, 260 queer theory, 128, 146 R race, 61, 62, 80, 146, 152, 154, 157, 159, 169, 239, 258, 260 reconstruction, 253, 254 Redeemers, 254 Reflections in a Golden Eye, 62, , repression/sexual repression, 162, 170, 172n9, 179, 185, 186, 252 S Schulman, Sarah, 2, 6 Schwarzenbach, A.C., 10, 15, 29 42, 57, 58, 60 segregation, 61, 160, , 252 sentimentalism, 183, 213, 256 sexuality, 12 14, 57, 61, 62, 69, 130, 134, 135, 138, 145 7, 149, 152, 154, 157 9, 166, 180, 181, 184, 186, 194, 195 Singer, John, 8, 13, 98, 101 5, 190, 205 southern womanhood, 122, 158 South/Southern United States/U.S. South, 6, 21, 52, 61, 62, 72 5, 101, 102, 106, 107, 109, 114, 122, 123, 128, , 157, 158, 160, 189, 191, 192, 196, 213, 219, 227, 253, 255, 259, 262, 265n2 speciesism, 128, 132, 133 Square Root of Wonderful, 1, 5, 17n3, 22, 50 Stack, Andy, 10, 15 string quartet, Sullivan, M.S., T Tippins, Sherill, 2 tomboy, 69, 72, 78, 113, 114, 116, 120, 123, 124, 143, 145, 153, 160, 165 transatlantic, 233 transgression, 210, 226, 227, 254, 258, 259, 265n4 trickster, 254, 255, 260, 265n5 Tucker, Mary, 14, 30, V Vega, Suzanne, 2, 9 11, 15 voyeurism, 175, 187 W Warren, R.P., 263 Waters, Ethel, 4, 6

10 INDEX 279 Williams, Tennessee, 2, 10, 55, 75, 143, 147 Woolf, Virginia, 10, 99, 107 World War II, 15, 50, 58, 64n3, 107, 109, 233, 234 Wright, Richard, 6 Wunderkind, 5, 84, 93