Julia Eichelberger
Professor
Julia Eichelberger began teaching at the College in 1992 and is currently Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature. She has taught a variety of courses in American literature, including Southern literature, postwar American poetry, African American literature, 20th-century American fiction, Jewish American literature, and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø writers, as well as first-year writing. She is an affiliate faculty member in African American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, the director of the interdisciplinary minor in and a member of the Executive Board for the College's . On sabbatical Fall 2020-Spring 2021.
Education
Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina
Research Interests
- Literature of the U. S. South
- 20th-Century American novels
- Post-1945 American poetry
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø writers
Courses Taught
ENGL 576: Tell About the South: Welty, Faulkner, and other Writers since 1930
ENGL 341: Literature of the American South
ENGL 207: American Literature to the Present
Recent Publications
“Remembering and Rewriting Gullah Narratives,” introduction to Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, John Bennett (1947), U of SC Press, 2020
Co-author, with Sarah Fick, Harlan Greene, Ron Menchaca, Bernard Powers, 250th Anniversary Campus Tour, May 2020.
“,” Post and Courier, May 3, 2019
. UP of MS, 2018. [Collection of essays I co-edited with Mae Miller Claxton; we wrote “Introduction" and "Resources for Teachers" and I wrote an essay, “Teaching the Art of Welty’s Letters.”]
“.” Post and Courier Sept 24, 2018.