About Southern Literary Journal

In the foreword to the first issue of the Southern Literary Journal, published in November of 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal's objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which the Southern Literary Journal is committed."

Since then the Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature that examine the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture. The journal continues to promote the study and the attempt to understand a still vexing region and the important issues represented in the literature of the American South.

*Editors of the Southern Literary Journal*
	Fred Hobson, Lineberger Professor of the Humanities
	Author of Serpent in Eden: H.L. Mencken and the South, Southern Mythmaking: The Savage and the Ideal, Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain, The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World, H.L. Mencken: A Life, But Now I See: The Southern White Racial Conversion Narrative, and The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays; editor of South-Watching: Selected Essay of Gerald W. Johnson, South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty First Century, and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook; series editor of Southern Literary Studies from Louisiana State University Press; and associate editor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology.
	Minrose Gwin, Kenan Eminent Professor of Southern Literature
	Author of Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature, The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference, The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading, and Wishing for Snow: A Memoir; editor of Olden Times Revisited: W. L. Clayton's Pen Pictures and A Woman's Civil War: A Diary with Reminiscences of the War from March 1862; and associate editor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology.

Associate Editors of the Southern Literary Journal

William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English

James W. Coleman, Professor of English

Joseph M. Flora, Atlanta Professor of Southern Culture

Philip Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture

William Harmon, James Gordon Hanes Professor of the Humanities

Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English

Mae Henderson, Professor of English

George Lensing, Professor of English

Bland Simpson, Professor of Creative Writing

Linda Wagner-Martin, Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature