Julia Eichelberger, Charleston, South Carolina, is Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature at the College of Charleston. She is the author of "Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty" and articles in the "Eudora Welty Review", "Mississippi Quarterly", and other publications.