Tim Ryan

Assistant Professor

Educational Background

Professional Interests

Selected Publications

• "'The World Is a Whole Family of Hurstons': Black and White Kinship in Zora Neale Hurston's Family Narratives." Critical Insights: Family. Ed. John V. Knapp. Ipswich, MA: Salem P, 2012.
• "Billie Holiday," "Billy Wilder," "August Wilson." Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Eds. Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper. New York: Oxford UP, 2012.
• Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone With the Wind. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008.
  
  Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award, 2008.
• "Designs Against Tara: Frances Gaither's The Red Cock Crows and Other Counternarratives to Gone With the Wind." Mississippi Quarterly 59.2 (Spring 2006): 243-69.
• "'One Shiny Bleach Job': The Power of Whiteness in James Ellroy's American Tabloid." Journal of American Culture 27.3 (September 2004): 271-79.

Current Courses