Link to the Show / Show NotesDeborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Riche' Richardson, author of Black Masculinity And the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta published by the University of Georgia Press.
Professor Richardson is a Southerner who was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. She joined the English Department faculty at UC Davis in the fall of 1998.
Her scholarly essays have appeared in journals such as American Literature, The Mississippi Quarterly, and the Forum for Modern Language Studies. She is the co-editor, with Jon Smith, of the new book series, The New Southern Studies, at the University of Georgia Press.
Professor Richardson regularly gives lectures and serves on panels at national conferences. Professor Richardson recently completed a two-year term on the Executive Council for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and also serves on that organization's Publication Committee. Most recently, she was elected to the Southern Literature Discussion Group in the Modern Language Association (2006-09).
In addition to being a scholar, she is an artist who makes mixed-media appliquà art quilts. Her body of art work will be featured in an upcoming exhibition in Montgomery, Alabama, which will be accompanied by a catalog and site online. Visit her webpage.
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