Professor Bill Ferris’s new book, The Storied South, has debuted with great fanfare. An Okra Pick for the fall by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) as the best in new Southern writing, The Storied South was also featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition: … Read more

Professors Bill Ferris and Malinda Maynor Lowery are featured in the South Writ Large just published by the Global South Working Group: http://southwritlarge.com

The Oxford American profiles Folklore’s Reed Turchi with a shout-out to Professor Bill Ferris. “As a college student at the University of North Carolina, Reed Turchi was a folklore student and an occasional musician, but the driving, rhythmic propulsion of … Read more

Professor Bill Ferris’s new book, The Storied South, receives words of praise in Garden & Gun. 

Truth’s Ragged Edge by Distinguished Professor Philip Gura continues to reap praise: “a nimble synthesis of a vital period in literary history, tracing our homegrown novel’s evolution from morality tale to self-aware interiority, traversing and incorporating the countless currents of … Read more

Our Folklore graduate alums continue to turn up the heat in the kitchen and put the most delectable treats on the table. Read Sara Camp Arnold’s “On the Road with the Southern Foodways Alliance” in the Oxford American: http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/jun/10/road-sfa-north-carolina/

Chris Fowler writes, “‘Local,’ ‘free-range,’ and ‘organic’ are buzzwords around the ivory tower. I wanted to see what these things meant where the rubber meets the road. I looked towards my home in rural eastern North Carolina to explore these … Read more

Congratulations to Professor Daniel M. Cobb, who recently received a 2013 Phillips Fund for Native American Research grant from the American Philosophical Society. It will support research on his current project, a biography of Ponca activist Clyde Warrior (1939-1968). http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips

Professor Philip Gura’s new book Truth’s Ragged Edge continues to earn well-deserved recognition. Follow the link to a review in the Washington Post: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-17/entertainment/38611576_1_sheppard-lee-robert-montgomery-bird-ahab

With her father active in local government, recent American Studies graduate Jessica Kennedy grew up familiar with the social issues of Watauga County— an uncertain transition from an agricultural based economy, hunger and poverty. She applied for and received a … Read more