Coleman Hutchison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America and the co-author of Writing about American Literature. Hutchison's work has also appeared in such journals as American Literary History, Common-Place, Comparative American Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, the Journal of American Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, PMLA, and Southern Spaces.