Natasha Trethewey and Our Shared History

Readers Unbound is privileged to welcome Pearl McHaney as today’s guest blogger. Many readers shy away from poetry, afraid of not understanding, expecting not to been entertained. American poet and pediatrician William Carlos Williams wrote a long love poem titled “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.” Near its end, I find my mantra for the significance […]

The Good Doctors McHaney or A Pair of Southern Literature Scholars

June 3, 2015 · by Deb Miller | in Author Interviews, The Writing Life | tagged Dr. Pearl McHaney, Dr. Tom McHaney, Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty and Human Relationships, Eudora Welty's Photography, Faulkner's Use of Language, Food in Southern Women's Culture, Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern American Literature, Literature and Southern Culture, petanque, Re-reading Great Literature, Southern Literature, William Faulkner | 19 Comments

On May 12, 2015, Georgia State University announced that Dr. Pearl Amelia McHaney has been named the new Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern American Literature, a prestigious title formerly given to only one other GSU professor, her husband, Dr. Thomas L. McHaney. Both the McHaneys agree they could never have predicted the parallels in […]