The Many Artistic Layers of Charleston Writer Nicole Seitz

I first met Nicole Seitz at Palmetto Christian Academy (PCA), a private Christian-based school that I was visiting for my son’s upcoming academic year. Clad in a smock apron, Nicole smiled warmly and had a smear of paint on her high cheekbones (though I may have imagined that part). Her personality was wholly and gracefully […]

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 […]