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Benjamin (Ben) Child

Associate Professor of English

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English and Creative Writing
305 Lathrop Hall

Ben Child teaches courses in American literature and the environmental humanities. His work has appeared in journals such as American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, American Studies, Southern Cultures, and Popular Music and Society. Child's book, , appears in the University of Georgia Press's New Southern Studies series. His current research addresses literary productions and interpretations of US populism.

In non-plague years, he co-hosts The Minglewood Radio Hour on WRCU-FM with his wife, Katie.

B.A., Brigham Young University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Mississippi
 

The Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946 (University of Georgia Press, 2019).

鈥淎n Aesthetics of Fusion: David Bryant Fulton鈥檚 Hanover and the Wilmington Massacre,鈥 The 1898 Wilmington Massacre: Critical Explorations on Insurrection, Black Resilience, and Black Futures, ed. Tiffany Gilbert and Lynn Mollenauer (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming.

鈥淣otes on the Altered States of Virginia: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson鈥檚 My Monticello,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Mississippi Quarterly (forthcoming.

鈥淭he Ends of the Cosmopolitan: Go Down, Moses, Rurality, and Faulkner鈥檚 Americanity,鈥 Faulkner's Modernisms, ed. Jay Watson and James Thomas (University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming.

鈥淗uck Finn, Land Pirate,鈥 Studies in American Fiction 47.1 (2020): 47-70.

鈥淭he Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir,鈥 American Literature 91.3 (2019): 557-86.

鈥淔ields of Progress: The Mechanization of Agriculture in Days of Heaven,鈥 American Studies 57.1/2 (2018): 79-102.

鈥淎stonishing Byblows: Rurality, Snopesism, and Populist Modernization in Faulkner鈥檚 Frenchman鈥檚 Bend,鈥 Modern Fiction Studies 64.2 (2018): 286-310.

鈥溾楴o kind of place鈥: New York City, Southernness, and Migratory Modernism,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Faulkner鈥檚 Geographies, ed. Jay Watson and Ann A. Abadie (University Press of Mississippi, 2015), 50-64.

鈥淭he Magical Real and the Rural Modern in Cinema Novo: Vidas Secas and Black God, White Devil,鈥 South Central Review 31.1 (2014): 55-73.

鈥淢补辫辫颈苍驳 The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston,鈥 Southern Cultures 17.2 (2011): 37-54.

鈥淟ooking Over the Country Again: Rusticity and the Urban/Rural Spatiality of The Orchard Keeper and No Country for Old Men,鈥 Cormac McCarthy Journal 9.1 (2011): 1-16.

鈥淩aised in the Country, Working in the Town: Spatial and Temporal Modernisms in Bob Dylan鈥檚 鈥Love and Theft,鈥 Popular Music and Society 32.2 (2009): 199-210.

American Texts and Contexts

American Literature and the Environment

The Challenges of Modernity

Fugitive Mobilities: Migration and Environment in American Literature

Race, Place, and the American South 

Plant, Animal, Mineral: American Literature and Extractive Industry

William Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha Fictions (1929-42)