English Professor Named President of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Lisa Hinrichsen, associate professor of English and director of graduate studies in the Department of English in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, has been named president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Her two-year term will begin Feb. 19.
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature was founded in 1968 and has a global membership. It sponsors a biennial conference, produces a newsletter, and annually bestows eight faculty and graduate-student awards.
The society also sponsors an active Emerging Scholars Organization, which connects scholars in a mentorship program, fosters scholarship through a writing circle, and hosts panels and events of interest to scholars at the beginning of their careers.
Hinrichsen is the author of Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination, and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature (LSU Press, 2015) and the co-editor, along with Gina Caison and Stephanie Rountree, of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU Press, 2017).
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Lisa Hinrichsen, associate professor of English
Department of English
479-575-4694,
lhinrich@uark.edu
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