James A. Crank

Associate Professor of American literature at the University of Alabama, James A. Crank is a National Humanities Center Summer Fellow and the co-host of the podcast THE SOUND AND THE FURIOUS. His work has appeared in south: an interdisciplinary journal, Global South, Southern Literary Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Studies, and collections such as Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee (2007), and Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s (2011). His books include Understanding Sam Shepard, New Approaches to Gone with the Wind, Race and New Modernisms, and Understanding Randall Kenan.

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