John Grammer is the Jesse Spalding Professor of English at the University of the South and has taught classes in British and American Literature, American Studies, and Sewanee’s interdisciplinary Humanities Program. His academic research principally concerns the literature and intellectual history of the U.S. South from the age of Thomas Jefferson to the present. Grammer received his B.A. at Vanderbilt University and his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. His 1996 book Pastoral and Politics in the Old South won the C. Hugh Holman Award as the best book of the year in Southern literary study, and his essays and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, The Southern Literary Journal, The Sewanee Review and other journals, as well as such books as The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and Blackwell's Guide to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Formerly chair of the English Department and Director of the Sewanee School of Letters, Grammer now directs Sewanee’s Mellon-funded Center for Southern Studies.

Hannah Huber is the Digital Technology Leader and Project Administrator for the University of the South's Center for Southern Studies, an initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. Huber advises faculty on digital humanities tools and methods, facilitates digital humanities projects, manages the day-to-day business of the Center, and teaches classes in U.S. literature, textual studies, and digital humanities. She received her PhD in English from the University of South Carolina and served as the postdoctoral research associate for the Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has appeared in Studies in American Fiction, Studies in American Naturalism, Salem Press's Critical Insights series and The Dictionary of Literary Biography. She is the Associate Editor of Studies in American Naturalism, and her book and digital companion Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature is forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press Topics in the Digital Humanities series (November 2023).

Woody Register is the Francis S. Houghteling Professor of American History and Director of The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South. Register graduated from Sewanee in 1980 and received his doctorate in history in 1991 from Brown University. He came to Sewanee in 1992 and teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American society and culture, popular culture, and gender. Register's research ranges widely in the history of popular culture, gender, consumer culture, business, and social welfare in the early twentieth century. His most recent work concerns the history of friendship, social reform, and masculinity, which he examines through a history of the lives of four boys—“street toughs”—who in the 1890s were “rescued” from the slums of New York City and put through the George Junior Republic, a juvenile reform program near Ithaca, New York. This recent work has been assisted by the Appalachian College Association, the Associated Colleges of the South, the Central New York Humanities Corridor Visiting Scholar Program, and the University of the South Faculty Development Fund. An article drawn from this research, "Good and Everlasting Friends: Letter-Writing and Friendship in 'Boy-Saving' Reform Endeavors in Progressive-Era America, 1896 to 1906," was featured in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

Camille Westmont is an archaeologist, historic preservationist, and Director of the Tennessee Convict Stockade Project. She is also a research assistant professor at the University of the South, where she previously served as the postdoctoral fellow in historical archaeology for the Center for Southern Studies. Since 2020, she has been directing excavations at the Lone Rock Stockade, the largest convict labor stockade in Tennessee during the era of convict leasing. Westmont received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2019. She has previously worked for U.S. National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the National Park Service, and the Historic American Building Survey and has carried out research in the United States, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Mexico, Peru, Sweden, and Iceland. She was recently awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship, for which she will commence work at the University of Cambridge in Fall 2023.

Kathy Solomon joined The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation in July 2021 to help manage its numerous programs and initiatives, specifically under the Legacies of American Slavery Initiative. She has a background in business management and financial administration and is happiest when she is creating order.