Harker to discuss “The Lesbian South”

Jaime Harker’s Brown Bag Lecture on Wednesday, February 6 will be about her new book, The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon. Harker is a professor of English and the director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, where

Diverse Slate of Spring Brown Bag Lectures Begins Today

Weekly sessions starting today cover topics from state politics and civil rights struggles to gay truckers and jazz Written by Rebecca Lauck Cleary The Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series sponsored by the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture continues this spring with topics ranging from Brazilian dance to gay truck

A Syllabus for SST 560: Oral History & Documenting LGBTQ Histories in Mississippi

We like to occasionally post syllabi from Southern Studies courses, like Dr. Brian Foster’s SST 102: The Southern Protest Mixtape and Dr. Darren Grem’s course on southern music history. Today we share Dr. Jessie Wilkerson’s SST 560: Introduction to Oral History, which has as its theme “Documenting LGBTQ Histories in Mississippi.”