Peter Goodwin Heltzel is associate professor of theology and director of the Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He ...

Charles Marsh is professor of religious studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. He is author of multiple titles including Reclaiming Dietrich Bonheoffer: The ...

Peter Slade is associate professor of religion at Ashland University. He is author of Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship.

Eudora Welty, one of America's most celebrated writers, was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909. Although she traveled widely and often, she lived most of her life on Pinehurst Street in Jackson's Belhaven ...

Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American ...

Robin Whitfield studied painting at Delta State University and works for Communities in Schools of Greenwood Leflore, Inc.

How does a girl from Grundy, Virginia, become a successful writer? The interviews and profiles in Conversations with Lee Smith tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential ...

In 1972 Rudolfo Anaya (1937–2020) made a quiet entry into American literature with the publication of Bless Me, Ultima. Over the span of twenty-two years, by word of mouth alone, this first novel sold ...

Linda Tate is an independent scholar and was formerly an associate professor of English at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.V. She has written A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary ...

Silvio Sirias is assistant professor of Spanish and Chicano/Latino literature at Appalachian State University.