Faculty Biographies

Associated Faculty of the American and Southern Studies Program

Dale Cockrell

DALE COCKRELL, Professor of Musicology; Chair of the Music Literature/History Department. (Ph.D. Illinois). Publications include journal and encyclopedia articles, books, scholarly editions of music, and reviews. Lectures and papers presented throughout the United States. Numerous grants and awards. American Antiquarian Society (elected, 1995). Member, American Musicological Society, American Studies Association, College Music Society, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, Sonneck Society for American Music, President, 1995-97. Member of faculty: University of Natal (South Africa), 1974-76; Indiana University, 1978; Dartmouth College, 1978/79; 1981; Middlebury College (Vermont), 1979-85; College of William and Mary, 1985-96. He has been at the Blair School since 1996.

THADIOUS DAVIS, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English (Ph.D. Boston University). Interests include 20th Century American Literature; African-American Literature, Southern American Literature, Women's Literature. Publications include Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled (1994); Satire or Evasion: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, ed. (1992); William Faulkner's "Negro" : Art and the Southern Context (1982); recent essays on Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, and Carson McCullers.

Thadious Davis

Don Doyle

DON H. DOYLE, Professor of History (PhD. Northwestern, 1973) has written on towns and cities in the Midwest and South and is currently working on Yoknapatawpha: A History of Faulkner's County, which will use Lafayette County, Mississippi, as a case study in the evolution of a southern community from the time of the Chickasaws through the early 1960s. He is co-editor and co-author with Larry Griffin of The South as an American Problem, a book of essays by Vanderbilt faculty and others. He teaches an interdisciplinary course on Faulkner's fiction and Southern history in addition to his normal undergraduate and graduate- level courses in American social history.

LARRY GRIFFIN, Professor of Sociology, Professor of Political Science. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins 1977). Interests include comparative sociology/macrosociology, Political sociology, Stratification/mobility/inequality. With Don Doyle, he is co-editor and co-author of The South as an American Problem (1996).

Larry Griffin

Michael Kreyling

MICHAEL KREYLING Professor of English (Ph.D. Cornell), Primary interests include American and Southern Literature. Author of two books on Eudora Welty: Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order (1980) and Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell (1991); and The Figure of the Hero in Southern Narrative, which deals with Southern fiction from the antebellum period to the present; continues to work in Southern intellectual and literary history, and the works of individual authors.

CECELIA TICHI, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English (Ph.D. California, Davis), American Literature; Women's Studies. P ublications include High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music (1994); Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture (1991); Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America; New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman (1979).

Cecelia Tichi

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