Release date for River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain has been slated for June 2007. As you can see from the sideba...

A first glimpse of the cover of River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain ( Louisiana State University Press , Spring 200...

My review of Jay Feldman's When The Mississippi Ran Backwards is about to appear in issue 6.1 of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississipp...

Margaret Hall, Frances Trollope, Harriet Martineau My article, ''The river now began to bear on our imaginations': Margaret H...

'The Shanty-Boat' (from Willard Glazier's Down the Great River , 1887) The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing - fea...

Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863 (Currier & Ives) Course outline...

From September I will be a Lecturer in American Studies (Literature and Culture) at the University of East Anglia. Contact details and links...

Invitation to the Mistick Krewe of Comus' Ball, 1925 My article on this year's Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans has been publ...

This term I will be working as a Temporary Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature University College London. Contact ...

John Murrell stealing a slave My article on the literary appearances of outlaw John Murrell and the Vicksburg gambler lynchings is soon to a...

A link to my article on the historic parallels for Hurricane Katrina in the New Statesman (12 September, 2005): 'Gulf Coast Blues' ...

Canada Bill throwing monte Blackleg i s an occasional record of the publications and research activities of Dr Thomas Ruys Smith, Le...