Julia Eichelberger is Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature at the College of Charleston. She is the author of Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty; editor of Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949; and coeditor of Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches. She has also written articles in the Eudora Welty Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and other publications. In 2016 she was honored with the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Welty studies.
