Dr Will Brantley
Professor
Departments / Programs
Degree Information
- PHD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991)
- MA, Georgia State University (1981)
- BA, Georgia State University (1977)
Biography
A native of Atlanta, Dr. Brantley has taught at Georgia Tech and the University of California at Santa Barbara. At MTSU he teaches courses in southern literature, modern American literature, professional writing, and film. He is the author of Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir, which received the Eudora Welty Award for an interpretive work of scholarship in modern letters (1993). He is the editor of Conversations with Pauline Kael (1996) and co-editor of Convers...
Read More »A native of Atlanta, Dr. Brantley has taught at Georgia Tech and the University of California at Santa Barbara. At MTSU he teaches courses in southern literature, modern American literature, professional writing, and film. He is the author of Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir, which received the Eudora Welty Award for an interpretive work of scholarship in modern letters (1993). He is the editor of Conversations with Pauline Kael (1996) and co-editor of Conversations with Edmund White (2017). Recent publications include "Conversing with Kael: Atlanta 1979, and Beyond" in Talking About Pauline Kael: Critics, Filmmakers, and Scholars Remember an Icon (2015), and "Letter-Writing, Authorship, and Southern Women Modernists" in The Oxford Handbook to the Literature of the U.S. South (2016). In 1997, Brantley co-founded the Carson McCullers Society to promote critical appreciation of McCullers and her work.
Publications
- Brant ley, W il l. Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow , Welty, Hellman, Porter , and Hurston. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1993; paperback editions 1995, 2010; netLibrary.com edition, 2000.
- ___, ed. Conversations with Pauline Kael. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996.
- ___ (with Nancy McGuire Roche), ed. Conversations with Edmund White. Co-edited with Nancy McGuire Roche. Jackson: UP of Mississippi (forthcoming).
