Modernism and Modernity in the US South: The Case of Eudora Welty

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David McWhirter is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he teaches classes on modernist literature and culture, early cinema, and U.S. southern studies.  He is the author of Desire and Love in Henry James (1989) and editor of Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship (1995), Aesthetic Subjects (with Pamela R. Matthews, 2003), and Henry James in Context (2010).  Currently he is completing a book project on James’s late 1890s fictions and editing Roderick Hudson for the forthcoming Cambridge University Press Complete Fiction of Henry James series.

McWhirter’s essays on Henry James, Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf and other writers and topics have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, ELH, ELN, The Henry James Review, and numerous edited collections, most recently Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race (2012), Transforming Henry James (2013), and the forthcoming Leo

Bersani:  Queer Theory and Beyond.  McWhirter was Executive Director of the South Central Modern Language Association from 1995 to 2002, has twice served as President of the Henry James Society, and just completed a two-year term as President of the Eudora Welty Society; he was recently elected to the Executive Council of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.

 

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