DR. GARY RICHARDS

Associate Professor
PhD, Vanderbilt University, 1996

Dr. Richards specializes in American literature with an expertise in
southern literature. In particular, his teaching and research focuses
on the nexus of regional identity with gender, race, sex, and sexuality
as depicted in southern texts. Recent courses that he has offered in this arena include Southern Literature, Southern Women Writers, Black Southern Writers, New Orleans Literature, Revising the Southern Renaissance, and Imagining the Civil War.

Selected Publications:

Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961. Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

"'With a Special Emphasis': The Dynamics of (Re)Claiming a Queer
Southern Renaissance." Mississippi Quarterly (Spring 2002).

"Moving Beyond Mississippi: Beth Henley and the Anxieties of
Postsouthernness." Beth Henley: A Casebook. Ed. Julia A. Fesmire.
New York and London: Routledge, 2002.

"Scripting Scarlett O'Goldberg: The Production of Southern Jewishness in
The Last Night of Ballyhoo." Southern Quarterly (Summer 2001).

Phone Number:
(504) 280-6975

Email Dr. Richards@
gnrichar@uno.edu

Address: Education Building 171

Office Hours:

T 8:30-10:30am
W 8:30-11:30am
& by appointment

Courses for Fall 2007:

Engl 2258-001: Interpreting Literature
MW 2:00-3:00pm

Engl 4045-001: Southern Literature
MW 12:30-1:45pm

Engl 6090-601:
Gender, Race and Sexuality in New Orleans Literature
MW 5:00-6:15pm