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Thomas Haddox

Selected Publications

  • Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South, Fordham University Press, October 2005.

Representative articles

  • “Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone and the Ludic in African-American Historical Fiction.”  In press at Modern Fiction Studies; estimated date of publication Spring 2007
  • “The City Reconsidered: Problems and Possibilities of Urban Community in ‘A Stroke of Good Fortune’ and ‘The Artificial Nigger,’” The Flannery O’Connor Review 3 (2005): 4-18
  • “Elizabeth Spencer, the White Civil Rights Novel, and the Postsouthern,” Modern Language Quarterly 65 (December 2004): 561-81
  • "Whitman's End of History: 'As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore': Democratic Vistas, and the Postbellum Politics of Nostalgia," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 22.1 (Summer 2004): 1-22
  • “’Something Haphazard and Botched’: Flannery O’Connor’s Critique of the Visual in ‘Parker’s Back,’” Mississippi Quarterly 57 (Summer 2004): 407-21
  • “Elizabeth Spencer, the White Civil Rights Novel, and the Postsouthern,” Modern Language Quarterly 65 (December 2004)
  • “Making Patriarchy Work for You: Jill Conner Browne’s Southern, Retrofeminist Conduct Manuals,” Southern Quarterly 42 (Spring 2004): 1-17
  • “Repeating with a Difference: New Readings of the Quixotic and the Religion in Southern Literature,” Mississippi Quarterly, 55 (Winter 2001/02): 133-40
  • "The 'Nous' of Southern Catholic Quadroons: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identity in Les Cenelles, American Literature 73 (December 2001): 757-78
  • "The Logic of Expenditure in Their Eyes Were Watching God," Mosaic 34 (March 2001): 19-34
  • "Contextualizing Flannery O'Connor: Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and the Catholic Turn in Southern Literature," Southern Quarterly 38 (Fall 1999): 173-90.

Book reviews

  • Rev. of Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South, Ralph C. Wood.  Mississippi Quarterly 58 (Spring 2005): 418-22
  • Rev. of A Singular Modernity: On the Ontology of the Present by Frederick Jameson, Soudings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 86 (Fall/Winter 2003): 563-69
  • review of Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph C. Wood, forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly
  • “Repeating a Difference: New Readings of the Quixotic and the Religious in Southern Literature,” review essay of Struggles Over the Word: Race and Religion in Faulkner, O’Connor, Hurston, and Wright by Timothy P. Caron, The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote by Montserrat Ginés, and Walker Percy’s Sacramental Landscapes: The Search in the Desert by Allen Pridgen, Mississippi Quarterly 55 (Winter 2001/02): 133-40.

Honors

  • John C. Hodges Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003.


Thomas Haddox

Contact Information

Thomas Haddox
Associate Professor
Department of English
415 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6802
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: thaddox@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Tulane University
M.A., University of Kent (England)
M.A., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Research

American Literature