Southern
Cultures Celebrates Ten-Year Anniversary with CELJ Award
A decade of success brings a new honor, a new co-editor, and a
new era.
Southern Cultures, the Center’s award-winning quarterly, celebrated
its tenth anniversary this past year. This milestone coincided with
the retirement of John Shelton Reed as co-editor, but it also brought
recognition for Reed’s longtime work from one of academia’s
most respected groups—the Council of Editors of Learned Journals—who
named Reed runner-up for its Distinguished Retiring Editor Award.
CELJ judges praised Southern Cultures for its broad appeal.
Said one: “Dr. Reed and his staff have put considerable creativity
and energy into the graphic side of their publication, and the rich
array of photographs and graphics, and the sincere and effective
attempt at readerly appeal, go well beyond what is attempted by most
academic journals. This dimension of Southern Cultures is
truly impressive and, I think, a hallmark of what ambitious academic
journals should
be attempting in the 21st century.” a
Over the last decade the vision of Reed and co-editor Harry L. Watson,
the Center’s director, saw Southern Cultures through adversity
to its current position as the South’s premier publication
on the region. Reed and Watson brought the work of dozens of noted
writers together between the pages of Southern Cultures, including:
Eudora Welty, Hodding Carter, C. Vann Woodward, Pat Conroy, Doris
Betts, Hal Crowther, Allan Gurganus, Trudier Harris, Fred Hobson,
Melton McLaurin, Louis D. Rubin, Lee Smith, Henry Taylor, Drew Gilpin
Faust, Alice Walker, Eugene Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Robert
Penn Warren, Ann Firor-Scott, and David Zucchino.
Now, as Southern Cultures enters its second decade in print,
it will benefit from the insights of renowned southern sociologist
Larry
J. Griffin, who joins Watson as co-editor. The coming year will bring
special issues on music and tobacco, more new interviews, poetry,
photo essays, and book reviews, essays on the Civil War dead and
Gone with the Wind, a speech from former Mississippi Governor
William Winter, a new piece from old friend Reed on a barbeque joint
in London--and,
for the first time, southern fiction. To subscribe, call 919-966-3561,
extension 256, or visit the Southern Cultures website. Click
here to subscribe.
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