Description: Given that the popular resurgence of confederate idealization and romanticization oriented by struggles over confederate monuments deeply involves nineteenth-century United States literary cultures, this roundtable pulls together experts who specialize in the postbellum period of United States history, African American literatures, and the literatures of the southern United States (including the Southwest).

Speakers

Mariah Crilley, West Virginia U, Morgantown

Spencer Herrera, New Mexico State U, Las Cruces

Daniel Luttrull, Case Western Reserve U

Tony McGowan, United States Military Acad.

Evander Price, Harvard U

Maria Seger, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

Presider

Jarvis McInnis, Duke U