Fred Colby Hobson, Jr

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FRED COLBY HOBSON, JR. SS# 238-66-8995

UNIVERSITY ADDRESS: Dept. of English, CB#3520, UNC

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 PHONE: 919-962-4005

HOME ADDRESS: 110 Hunters Ridge Road PHONE: 919-942-0417
Chapel Hill, NC 27517

EDUCATION:
1972 Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1967 M.A., History, Duke University
1965 A.B., English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

EMPLOYMENT:
1997- Lineberger Professor in the Humanities, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
1989- Professor of English and Co-Editor, Southern Literary Journal, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Affiliated Faculty in American Studies)
1986-1989 Professor of English and Co-Editor, The Southern Review, Louisiana State
University
1972-86 Professor of English, University of Alabama (Assistant Prof., 1972-75;
Associate Prof., 1975-80; Prof., 1980-86)
1969-70 Editorial Writer, Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel
pre-1972 Various other part-time teaching positions in the United States and England,
and various summer newspaper positions (while an undergraduate and
graduate student) as reporter, editor, and feature writer.

PUBLICATIONS--BOOKS:

The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.

But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Winner of the Jules F. Landry Award for 1999.
Mencken: A Life. New York: Random House, 1994; in paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Nominee for Pulitzer Prize in biography.
The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. Winner of the Jules F. Landry Award for 1983.
Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken and the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
(Editor) A Southern Enigma: Essays on the U.S. South. Valencia: Press of the University of Valencia (Spain), 2008.

(Editor) William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

(Editor) South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

(Co-Editor, with William Andrews, Minrose Gwin and Trudier Harris) The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
(Co-Editor) Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, by H. L. Mencken. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
(Editor, with biographical introduction) South-Watching: Selected Essays of Gerald W. Johnson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Non-Fiction for 1983.
(Co-Editor) Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1982.

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Guest Editor, Special Issue of The Southern Review (“The Life and Work of Lewis P. Simpson”), Spring 2006. Including “Lewis P. Simpson (1916-2005),” 227-231.

BOOKS—UNDER CONTRACT AND IN PROGRESS
The Savage South: Reflections on an Image (Oxford University Press).

Co-editor, The Literature of the American South: An Oxford Handbook.

SERIES EDITOR: Southern Literary Studies, Louisiana State University Press, 1993- . To date I have selected, helped in editing, and seen through publication (or have in press) some ninety-five books in the series. The winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award (awarded by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and presented annually at MLA) has come from this series six of the past eleven years.

PUBLICATIONS--ESSAYS, ARTICLES, CHAPTERS:

“Mencken’s Defense?” Introduction to new edition of In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2007, vii-xv.

“Lewis P. Simpson and the Republic of Letters.” Introduction to Imagining Our Time: Recollections and Reflections on American Writing, by Lewis P. Simpson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007, ix-xv.

“’To Tell, To Talk’: Southern Writers in the Twentieth Century,” in The U. S. South in the Twentieth Century, ed. Craig Pascoe. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005, 154-71.

"Louis Rubin, Newspapering, and the Autobiographical Impulse," Southern Review, 38 (Fall 2002), 690-703.

"Southern Women's Autobiography." In The History of Southern Women's Literature. Ed., Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002, 268-75.

"The Cosmopolitan Provincial: Allen Tate and the South." Atlantic Monthly, December 2000, 11821.
"The Sportswriter: Postmodern, Postsouthern?" Perspectives on Richard Ford (ed., Huey Guagliardo), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000, 8396.
"Up in the Country." In Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Region. Ed., Dwight Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. Pp. 17483.
"The Southern Racial Conversion Narrative: Larry L King and Pat Watters," Virginia Quarterly Review, 75 (Spring 1999), 20525.
"The Sins of the Fathers: Lillian Smith and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin," Southern Review, 34 (Autumn 1998), 75579.
"Making Biography Out of Mencken." Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography (ed., Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam). Amsterdam: V. U. Vitgeverij, 1998, 16.
"The Early Wolfe: Realist and Satirist," Thomas Wolfe Review, 21 (Fall 1997), 4853.
"Of Canons and Cultural Wars." The Future of Southern Letters (ed., John Lowe and Jefferson Humphries). New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 7286.
"Surveyors and Boundaries: Southern Literature and Literary Scholarship After MidCentury," Southern Review, Autumn 1991, 73955.
"Faulkner and His Shadow: The Literature of the Modern South." In The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Edition (ed., Boris Ford). London: Penguin Books, 1988, 461-77.
"Mencken and the Late Confederacy." In Critical Essays on H. L. Mencken (ed., Douglas C. Stenerson). Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1987, 174-86.
"Men of Letters," Kenyon Review, Winter 1986, 119-28.
"A History of Southern Image-Making." In The South: Old and New (ed., Armand Michaux). Brussels: Center for American Studies, 1986, 23-41.
"H. L. Mencken." In Fifty Southern Writers After 1900 (ed., Robert Bain and Joseph M. Flora). New York: Greenwood Press, 1986, 313-23.
"The Savage South: An Inquiry into the Origins, Endurance, and--Presumed--Demise of an Image," Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1985, 377-95.
"The Rise of the Critical Temper," In The History of Southern Literature (ed., Louis D. Rubin, Jr., and others). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985, 252-57.
"Of Southern Honor--and Certain Southern Renegades," Southern Humanities Review, Summer 1985, 243-51.
"Thomas Wolfe and the Individual Talent," Southern Literary Journal, Spring 1984, 118-24.
"Lillian Smith and Strange Fruit." Introduction to Brown-Thrasher edition of Strange Fruit. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985, vii-xviii.
"John Temple Graves and Southern Liberalism." Introduction to reprint edition of The Fighting South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985, ix-xviii.
"H. L. Mencken and the Harlem Renaissance." In REVIEW, 1985 (ed., James O. Hoge and James L. W. West, III). Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, 191-96.
"A Southern Tragedy," Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 1983, 585-91.
"Gerald W. Johnson: The Southerner as Realist," Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1982, 1-25.
"No More Quentin Compsons, or A South Too Busy to Hate?" In Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their Region a Half Century After I'll Take My Stand (ed., Clyde N. Wilson). Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1981, 45-54.
Southern Mythmaking: The Savage and the Ideal. Booklet published, under grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for the Alabama Library Association (34 pp.), 1978.
"James McBride Dabbs: Isaac McCaslin in South Carolina," Virgina Quarterly Reivew, Autumn 1977, 640-59.
"Anticipations of the Future, or the Wish-Fulfillment of Edmund Ruffin," Southern Literary Journal, Autumn 1977, 84-91.
"The Burden of Southern Fiction," Sewanee Review, Summer 1977, 499-505.
"The Poor White in Transition," Southern Literary Journal, Spring 1977, 166-74.
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”H. L. Mencken,” forthcoming in the Heath Anthology of American Literature (fifth edition).
"George Fitzhugh: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy" (completed but not yet submitted).
"Bryan, Scopes and Frankie Frisch: Getting It Right in The Sun Also Rises" (completed but not yet submitted).

PUBLICATIONS--SHORT ARTICLES, REVIEWS:

Short essays on W. J. Cash, Hinton Rowan Helper, Gerald W. Johnson, H. L. Mencken, Howard W. Odum, and Lillian Smith, in Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, ed. Joseph Flora, Amber Fogel, and Bryan Giemza. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, 63-64, 193-94, 220-21, 278-79, 303-04, 375-76.

“Lewis P. Simpson: In Memoriam,” Southern Literary Journal, Fall 2005, 1-3.

Review of Look Away: The U.S. South in New World Studies, ed. Deborah Cohn and Jon Smith. Florida Historical Quarterly, v. 84 (2005), 174-76.

Review of Blood Done Sign My Name, by Timothy Tyson. Southern Cultures, Winter 2004, 86-88.

Review of Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History, ed. John B. Boles. Journal of Southern Religion, 7 (2004),

“The Influence of Mark Twain,” Mark Twain Studies (Japan), 1 (October 2004), 13-16.

Review of Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition, by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. American Historical Review, December 2003, 1465-66.

Review of The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork, by Hunter James. Southern Cultures, Summer 2003, 98-99.

"The Sahara of the Bozart," "The Savage Ideal," "The Savage South," and "Telling About the South.' In The Companion to Southern Literature. Ed., Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda M. MacKethan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. 754-55, 756, 878-80.

Review of Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the American South, by Curtis Wilkie. Oxford American, Fall 2001, 92.

Review of Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture Through a Transatlantic Lens, by Helen Taylor. Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 2001, 276-78.

Review of The South in Black and White: Race, Sex and Literature in the l940s, by McKay Jenkins. Journal of American History, March 2001, 157071.
”Det nya Sodern,” Parnass: Allt om Bocker, Autumn 2001, 8-10.

Review of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Writing, by Patricia Yaeger, Oxford American, NovemberDecember 2000, 100.
Review of Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s, by Pete Daniel, Southern Cultures, December 2000, 11820.
Review of Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball, and Battlegrounds of Memory, by Clay Lewis, Southern Cultures, Summer 2000, 8487.
Introduction. Cathedrals of Kudzu, by Hal Crowther. Louisiana State University Press, 2000, xixiv.
Preface. Sisters of Providence, ed. Allen Speer and Janet Barton Speer. Overmountain Press, 2000, 12.
Review of Inventing Southern Literature, by Michael Kreyling. Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 1999, 67073.
Review of Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South, by James C. Cobb. Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1999, 79697.
"H. L. Mencken," In American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 28992.
Review of Juneteenth, by Ralph Ellison. Oxford American, Summer 1999, p. 140.
Review of Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence, ed. James H. Grimshaw, Jr. Resources for American Literary Study, 25 (1999) , 27072.
Review of Eudora: A Writer's Life, by Ann Waldron: Oxford American, Spring 1999, p. 127.
"Lillian Smith: A Struggle for Wholeness," Southern Changes, 21 (Fall 1999), 1618.
Review of Erskine Caldwell: Selected Letters 19291955, ed. Robert L. McDonald. Oxford American, NovemberDecember 1999, p. 79.
Review of The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, ed. Jay Tolson. Southern Cultures, Winter 199798, 8487.
Foreword to Southern Writers (ed., William J. Starr), Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997, 7-10.

"From Falkner to Faulkner." Review of William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist, by Daniel J. Singal, Oxford American, Autumn 1997, 6264.
"The Southern Man of Letters," Review of Robert Penn Warren: A Bio~raphy_, by Joseph Blotner, Oxford American, Summer 1997, 7375.

Foreword to Southern Writers (ed., William J. Starr). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997, 7-10.

Review of The Problem of American Realism, by M. D. Bell. American Literature, June 1995, 39899.
Review of The Fable of the Southern Writer, by Lewis P. Simpson, Alabama Review, April 1996, 13032.
Review of Erskine Caldwell: A Biography, by Harvey Klevar, Southern Cultures, February 1996, 11921.
"The Southern Percys." Review of The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family and The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender and the Southern Imagination, by Bertram WyattBrown, Oxford American, March 1995, 10204.
"Remembering Well." Review of Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, by John Egerton, Oxford American, May 1995, 12830.
"Telling About the South." Review of The South, by B. C. Hall and C. T. Wood. Oxford American, October 1995, 7677.
"Fear and Loathing in Tuscaloosa," Review of Walking on Water and Other Stories, ed. Allen Weir, Oxford American, June 1996, 8687.
"From Democrat to Demogogue." Review of The Politics of Rage: George Wallace and the Transformation of American Politics, by Dan T. Carter. Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 28, 1996, pp. 4, 12.
"Struggling for Happiness," Review of Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy, by Jay Tolson. Times Literary Supplement, February 26, 1993, p. 22.
Review of T. S. Stribling: Pioneer Realist in Modern Southern Literature, by Edward J. Piacentino. American Literature, Spring 1989, 12122.
Short essays on H. L. Mencken, Gerald W. Johnson, "The Benighted South," and "H. L. Mencken's South," in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, (ed. William Ferris and Charles Reagan Wilson), the University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Review of Dresier-Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken, 1907-1945, two volumes, ed. Thomas P. Riggio; and Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters, ed., Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, South Atlantic Review, May 1988, 127-28.
"Charleston's Inside Agitator." Review of A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights, by Tinsley E. Yarborough. New York Times Book Review, January 10, 1988, p. 16.
Review of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, by William L. Andrews. Centennial Review, Winter 1988, 79-80.
Review of With All My Might: An Autobiography, by Erskine Caldwell. South Atlantic Review, January 1988, 171-72.
Review of Politicians, Poets, and Con Men: Emotional History in Late Victorian America, by Burton Raffel. American Literature, May 1987, 295-96.
"The Ordeal of Arthur Inman," Kenyon Review, Winter 1987, 139-42.
Review of From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in Amerca by Shelley Fisher Fiskin; The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era by Christopher P. Wilson; and James Agee: Selected Journalism, ed. Paul Ashdown. South Atlantic Review, September 1986, 404-08.
Review of Forgotten Prophet: The Life of Randolph Bourne, by Bruce Clayton. New York History, April 1985, 208-10
Review of The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, by Daniel Joseph Singal. Southern Changes, May/June 1985, 21-22.
"The Southern Rage to Explain" (abbreviated version of the prologue to Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain), Humanities, April 1985, 16-17.
Review of Southerners All, by F. Nash Boney. Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 1985, 241-43.
Review of 90 in the Shade (reprint edition), by Clarence Cason. Alabama Review, January 1985, 241-43.
Review of God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind, by Thomas L. Connelly and Barbara L. Bellows; and The Cause of the South: Selection from DeBow's Review, 1846-67, ed., Paul F. Paskoff and Daniel J. Wilson. Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 1983-84, 128-31.
Review of The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, By Daniel Joseph Singal. Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 1983, 600-603.
Review of Southern Writers and the New South Movement, 1865-1913, by Wayne Mixon. Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 1982, 576-78.
Review of The Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner, by Hubert Horton McAlexander. Alabama Review, July 1982, 243-36.
Review of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920, by Charles Reagan Wilson; The South and the North in American Religion, by Samuel Hill; and Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, by Anne Loveland. Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 1981-21, 73-77.
"Black Belt Summers." Foreword to Hunter James, All the Forgotten Places. Atlanta: Peachtree Press, 1981.
Review of The People's Voice: The Orator in American Society, by Barnet Baskerville. South Atlantic Review. January 1981, 129-31.
"Mencken's `Poet Born': John McClure of Oklahoma," Menckeniana, Autumn 1980, 40-43.
Review of Selections from the Letters and Speeches of James H. Hammond, ed. Clyde N. Wilson. Mississippi Quarterly, Winter 1979-80, 92-95.
Essays on H. L. Mencken, Gerald W. Johnson, W. J. Cash, Howard W. Odum, and Willie Morris in Southern Writers; A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Louis d. Rubin, Jr., Robert Bain, and Joseph M. Flora. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Essays on Gerald W. Johnson and H. L. Mencken's "The Sahara of the Bozart," in The Encyclopedia of Southern History, ed. David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Review of Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, by John Milton Cooper. Mississippi Quarterly, Autumn 1979, 675-78.
"H. L. Mencken," Academic American Encyclopedia. Princeton: Arete, 1979. Vol. 13, p. 293.
"Mencken's Blighted Violet: The Brief Career of Frances Newman, "Menckeniana, Winter 1976,