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Jon's essays and essay-reviews have appeared in journal publications such as American Literary History, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Global South, and Modern Fiction Studies. He has also contributed to collections that discuss topics like Faulkner and alt-country. He coedited the book 'Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies' with Deborah Cohn from Indiana University. His own monograph, 'Finding Purple America: The South in American Cultural Studies,' was published in 2013. Currently, he is collaborating with Scott Romine on a new book titled 'Cornbread Nationalism: Foodways, Partisans, and Misrepresentations of the South.'
Department of Philosophy