AML 5267 Summer 2018 Roberts

Eudora Welty said, "Place absorbs our earliest notice and attention, it bestows on us our original awareness; and our critical powers spring up from the study of it and the growth of experience inside it. It perseveres in bringing us back to earth when we fly too high. It never really stops informing us." This course explores the meaning of the South as an environments--historical, cultural and ecological. We will be reading works by Jesmyn Ward, William Faulkner, Janisse Ray and others. Graduate students will present research to the class and produce a potentially publishable article or essay as their main project.