The UNT American Studies Colloquium

“Behind the Cotton Curtain: Sharecropping and Literature of the Civil Rights Movement”

Dr. David A. Davis, Mercer University

Thursday, April 17, 3:00 PM

Language Building, Room 311

Dr. Davis is the director of University Honors, director of Fellowships and Scholarships, professor of English, and associate director of the Spencer B. King, Jr. Center for Southern Studies at Mercer University. He is the author of Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature and World War I and Southern Modernism. He has published more than forty articles and book chapters, edited reprints of Victor Daly’s novel Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts and John L. Spivak’s novel Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang, and co-edited Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways. He also edited a special issue of South: A Scholarly Journal on teaching and activism in Southern studies and a special double issue of Mississippi Quarterly on William Faulkner and World War I. He is currently writing a book on food and power in the U.S. South and editing a book on cotton and the 20th century U.S. South.