About the Author

Harriet Pollack is affiliate professor of American literature at College of Charleston. She is author of Eudora Welty’s Fiction and Photography: The Body of The Other Woman, and her previous edited and coedited volumes include Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race; Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination; Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America; and Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? She was the 2009 recipient of the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to Eudora Welty scholarship and has twice served as president of the Eudora Welty Society.

Reviews

New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race promises to be a major asset for not only Welty scholars, but readers, teachers, and researchers in southern literature, ethnic studies, gender studies, southern history, African American studies, whiteness studies, and musicology. One could not ask for a better editor than Harriet Pollack, whose recent work on Welty has vaulted her into the forefront of Welty studies. She knows this great writer's oeuvre better than anyone and is well connected with the other prominent Welty scholars--and most of them are in this collection.--John Wharton Lowe, Barbara Methvin Distinguished Professor of Southern, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies at University of Georgia

New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race provides valuable insights into the issues of class and race in Welty's fiction and photography. . . . With the inclusion of exciting intertextual readings, this collection
contributes not only to Welty scholarship but also, more broadly, to southern literary
studies and studies in American fiction and photography.--Hyoung Min Lee "Flannery O'Connor Review"

The essays in New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race, edited by Harriet Pollack, clear fresh and surprising paths into the author's complexly nuanced attentiveness to issues of race, class, and gender. This is a collection deeply steeped in the physical embodiments and spatial dimensions of Welty's stories and their richly associative powers; and like the southern landscape, both natural and socially constructed, these essays are as textured and generative as the author's work itself: high praise indeed!--Minrose Gwin, author of Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Civil Rights Movement and The Accidentals: A Novel