About

Coleman Hutchison (Ph.D., Northwestern, 2006) teaches and writes about U.S. literature and culture to 1900. He has abiding interests in poetry, print culture, southern literature, popular and folk music, and histories of sexuality. His work has appeared in American Literary History, Common-Place, Comparative American Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, The Global South, Journal of American Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, PMLA, south, and Southern Spaces, among other venues.

He is the author of the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America, the co-author of a guide for students entitled Writing About American Literature, and the editor of A History of American Civil War Literature.

Hutchison’s research has been supported by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Antiquarian Society, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Boston Athenaeum, the Huntington Library and the South Caroliniana Library.

In 2016-2018, Hutchison will serve as the President of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.