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Bill Hardwig

Bill Hardwig’s research and teaching interests are based in American literature, especially African American and Southern literature.  He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled The ‘Real’ South: Regional Writing and the Problem of Authenticity, which examines Southern regional writing from the 1870s to the early 1900s.  This project explores the desire for authenticity in Southern regional writing, as well as the anxiety surrounding regional, racial, ethnic, and class-based notions of identity during this era.

Selected Publications:

  • Introduction, Selected Bibliography and Editorship.   In the Tennessee Mountains [reprint]. By Mary Noailles Murfree.  Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming 2008.
  • "Walt Whitman and the Epic Tradition: Political and Poetical Voices in ‘Song of Myself.’" Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’: Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations.  Harold Bloom, ed.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003: 255-279. [reprint]
  • "Who Owns the Whip?: Chesnutt, Tourgee and Reconstruction Justice."   African American Review 36:1 (2002): 5-20.
  • "The Sentimental DuBois: Race, Anger, and the Politics of Genre."  W.E.B. DuBois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of The Souls of Black Folk.  Chester Fontenot, ed.  Macon, GA: Mercer Univ. Press, 2001: 142-165.

 


Bill Hardwig

Contact Information

Bill Hardwig
Assistant Professor
Department of English
313 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6938
E-mail: whardwig@utk.edu

Research

Southern and American literature