Memphis Tennessee Garrison was a schoolteacher and prominent early figure in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Bickley lets Garrison tell her story, offering a new view of Appalachia. “What has... Read More

Despite misogyny, patriarchy, and the established social mores of the pre- and post-Civil War South, there are women, whose lives are detailed in Negotiating Boundaries, who lived to the fullest extent possible in the space dictated by... Read More

Who doesn’t love an attic overflowing with objects old and new, illuminated by a bare light bulb or shaft of sun slipped in from the world outside? An anthology encompassing thirty-five years of university press publishing and over... Read More

In the vein of the “Chicken Soup” series, Mohler has put together a book that examines the gay soul in the context of positive homosexual identity formation. The author was motivated to write the book because of a lack of knowledge... Read More

The question sent out by the editors in the submission call: “Where were you between Betty Crocker and Gloria Steinem?” defines the generational poems collected here. Boomer Girls is broken into five sections ranging from birth... Read More

The renaissance of Virginia Woolf still blooms. Successively reborn into our polemical age of interdisciplinary feminist studies, her witty and passionate rebellion against Victorian/Edwardian cultural, literary and sexual patriarchy has... Read More

Allen Tate and Cleanth Brooks were both born in Kentucky near the turn of the century, both attended Nashville’s Vanderbilt University, and both were active participants at a time when reading and teaching poetry at the college level... Read More