Mary Ann Wilson is the author of Jean
Stafford: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne, 1996) and numerous
articles on American women writers, including "In Another Country:
Jean Stafford's Literary Apprenticeship in Baton Rouge" in The
Southern Review (1993); "'We Were Whole Again':
Kaye Gibbons' On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon" in
the North Carolina Literary Review (1999); "Jean Stafford" in The
Columbia University Companion to the American Short Story (2000);
"Living on the Edge in Rebecca Wells'Little Altars Everywhere" in Songs
of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (2001); "The
Erotics of Music in Kate Chopin's The Awakening" in Interdisciplinary
Humanities (2002); "Grace King: Southern Self-Representations
and Northern Publishers" in Nineteenth-Century American Women
Writers and the Literary Marketplace (2007); and "Grace King:
New Orleans Literary Historian," in Louisiana Women: Their
Lives and Times. (Athens: U of Georgia Press, 2009). She was the
University of Louisiana Foundation Distinguished Professor
in 2000, and
she received a Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Special
Humanities Award in the
spring of 2004 for
her service to public humanities in the state.She has been
awarded the Friends of the Humanities/BORSF Endowed Professorship
in the Humanities from 2010-2012. On going work includes “Rebecca
Wells: The Divine Saga Deep in the Heart of Louisiana” in Louisiana
Women: Their Lives and Times ( Athens: UGA Press, forthcoming
2013) and North and South: Essays in Gender, Race, and Region,
edited with Christine DeVine (Newcastle
upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2013). |
