Mary Weaks-Baxter, Roscoe, Illinois, is Andrew Sherratt Professor at Rockford University, where she teaches courses in literature and writing, and serves as faculty coordinator of community-based learning. She is author of Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in 20th Century Southern Writing and coeditor of The History of Southern Women’s Literature and Southern Women’s Writing: Colonial to Contemporary.
