SSSL Teaching Resources

If you’re willing to share your recent southern literature and/or southern studies syllabi, please email them to Lisa Hinrichsen at [email protected]. Other southern studies teaching resources (prompts, activities, strategies, links, etc.) are also welcomed.

Undergraduate Syllabi

• The South in History, Fiction, and Film (M. Thomas Inge)
• The South and Sexuality (Lisa Hinrichsen)
• The Literature of the American South (Ed Piacentino)
• Cotton Kingdom: Labor and Sovereignty in the South (David Davis)
• Civil War Memory (David Davis)
• Poor White Southerners (David Davis)
• Southern Justice (David Davis)
• The Civil Rights Movement (David Davis)
• Literature of the American South (John Lowe)
• Blue Ridge to Blue Sea: Cultures of the American South (Daniel Cross Turner)
• Studies in Southern Literature (Daniel Cross Turner)
• The Cinematic South: Envisioning Southernness (Daniel Cross Turner)
• Southern Literature (Leigh Anne Duck)
• Studies in Southern Literature (Daniel Cross Turner)
• The Undead South (Daniel Cross Turner)
• Literary New Orleans (Suzanne Jones)
• Louisiana Literature (John Lowe)
• Georgia Literature: An Archival Approach (John Lowe)
• The Southern City in American Literature (Jennie Lightweis-Goff)
• The Twenty-first-century South (Erich Nunn)
• Comics and the U.S. South (Qianna Whitted)
• The Contemporary South (Erich Nunn)
• Faulkner and Morrison (Kirstin L. Squint)
• Harper Lee’s American (Amy Clukey)
• Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.: Writing by Women of Color (Kirstin L. Squint)
• The New Southern Studies (Amy Clukey)
• Queer Souths (Erich Nunn)
• Segregated Cities (Amy Clukey)
• Speculative Souths (Erich Nunn)
• Writing the Colour Line: American Literature from Plessy to Ferguson (Gavan Lennon)

Graduate Syllabi

• The Multicultural South (Lisa Hinrichsen)
• Faulkner (Tom McHaney)
• Southern Literature (Tom McHaney)
• Southern Literature Syllabus (Chris Rieger)
• Southern Literature Daily Schedule (Chris Rieger)
• Southern Literature – Contemporary Genre and Geograph (Leigh Anne Duck)
• Faulkner’s Subjects (Leigh Anne Duck)
• Southern Accents (Daniel Cross Turner)
• Strange Currencies: Very Contemporary American Literatures (Daniel Cross Turner)
• The Transnational Souths (John Wharton Lowe)

Miscellaneous Resources

• Reading and Writing Souths (Southern Spaces)

Writing Prompts

• The South in History, Fiction, and Film (M. Thomas Inge)