Coleman Hutchison (Ph.D., Northwestern, 2006) teaches and writes about U.S. literature and culture to 1900. He has abiding interests in poetry, print culture, southern literature, popular and folk music, and histories of sexuality. His work has appeared in American Literary History, Common-Place, Comparative American Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, Journal of American Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, PMLA, and Southern Spaces, among other venues.
He is the author of the first literary history of the Civil War South, "Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America;" the co-author of a guide for students, "Writing About American Literature;" and editor of "A History of American Civil War Literature."
Hutchison has two books-in-progress: "The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry, 1863-2009" and a popular biography of Dixie. The former project studies the interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obamas inauguration; the latter tells the story of how a song gave a region a nickname, and how that nickname helped to shape the regions cultural identity.
Ph.D.
in English, Northwestern University, 2006
M.A.
in English, Northwestern University, 2002
B.A.
in English and Educational Studies, Vanderbilt University, 1999
U.S. literature and culture to 1900; poetry; print culture; the U.S. south; the American Civil War
President,
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (2016 - 2018)
Editorial Board,
South: a Scholarly Journal (2015 - 2017)
Promotion Referee,
Louisiana State University (2015)
Chair,
Louis D. Rubin Prize Committee, Society for the Study of Southern Literature (2015 - 2016)
Organizer,
Flair Symposium: Cultural Life During War Time, 1861- 1865, Harry Ransom Center (2014)
Exhibition Consultant,
The Making of Gone With the Wind, Harry Ransom Center (2014 - 2015)
Faculty Director,
Teaching the American Literary Tradition: An Institute for Texas Teachers, Humanities Texas (2014)
Fredson Bowers Prize Committee,
Society for Textual Scholarship (2014 - 2015)
Promotion Referee,
Arizona State University (2013)
Executive Council,
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (2012 - 2014)
Co-coordinator,
The 2012 Society for Textual Scholarship Conference (2012)
Executive Board,
The Society for Textual Scholarship (2011 - 2013)
Executive Committee,
Discussion Group on Southern Literature, Modern Language Association (2010 - 2015)
Exhibition Consultant,
From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy ofEdgar Allan Poe, Harry Ransom Center (2009 - 2010)
Co-coordinator,
Narrative: An International Interdisciplinary Conference (2008)
Manuscript and Media Reviewer,
American Literary History, American Quarterly, J19, Journal of American Studies, Brill, Cambridge University Press, Norton, Routledge, Thomson/Wadsworth, University of Georgia Press (2007 - Present)
Judge,
Austin Chronicle Short Fiction Prize (2007)
Regional Delegate,
Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly (2005 - 2007)
Conference Organizer,
Globalization is/in America (2004)
Co-Founder & Co-Organizer,
American Cultures Colloquium at Northwestern (2001 - 2005)
President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award
- The University of Texas at Austin (2015)
Visiting Scholar Fellowship
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010 - 2011)
Outstanding Teaching Award
- UT System Regents (2009 - 2010)
Faculty Fellow
- Humanities Institute (2009 - 2010)
Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship
- Boston Athenaeum (2004 - 2005)
Reese Fellowship
- Bibliographical Society of America (2004 - 2005)
