Emily Satterwhite
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Assistant Professor |
344 Lane |
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Ph.D. in American Studies at Emory University, 2005.
Emily Satterwhite teaches Appalachian studies and American studies and coordinates the American studies minor in the humanities program. Satterwhite’s research fields include critical regionalism, reception studies, and social history. Her current book project, Romancing the Region: Imagining Place, Race, and Nation, examines readers’ investments in the idea of Appalachia in bestselling fiction. Satterwhite is an affiliate of the ASPECT program (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) at Virginia Tech, an associate of the South Atlantic Humanities Center, and an editorial reviewer for the web journal Southern Spaces.
Representative Publications
“Romancing Whiteness: Popular Appalachian Fiction and the Imperialist Imagination at the Turns of Two Centuries,” in La Vinia Jennings, ed., At Home and Abroad: Historicizing Whiteness in Literature, Performance, and Popular Culture (forthcoming 2008, University of Tennessee Press).
“Imagining Home, Nation, World: Appalachia on the Mall,” Journal of American Folklore (Winter 2008).
“Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception,” American Literature 78:1 (March 2006): 59-88.
“‘That’s What They’re All Singing About’: Appalachian Heritage, Celtic Pride, and American Nationalism at the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival,” Appalachian Journal 32:3 (Spring 2005): 302-338.