Dr. Cameron Lee Winter

Specialization: 

• Southern Literature

• African American Literature

• American Literature to 1900

Theoretical Approaches: 

• Critical Race Studies and Postcolonialism

• Semiotics and Poststructuralism

• Cultural Studies

Education: 

• Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2022

• M.A., North Carolina State University, 2016

• B.A., North Carolina State University, 2010

Publications:

• “Some Desolation More Profound than Ruin”: The Postsouthern Ruin, Bachelard’s Shell, and the Poetics of Fire in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! in The Faulkner Journal, forthcoming

• “‘The American Invader’: George Washington Cable’s The Grandissimes and U.S. Expansionism in the Creole Caribbean” in Mississippi Quarterly 72.1 (2019): 95-116.

• “‘I ain’t got no use for none of that’: Contemporary Christian Kitsch and Iconography in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back’” in South Atlantic Review 84.2-3 (Fall/Summer 2019): 1-14.

Relevant Awards and Certifications:

• Robert West Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in Literary Studies, University of Georgia, 2021

• “Keepin’ It Clean” Citizen of the Year Award, Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful, Georgia, 2021

• Willson Center Grant for NHC Podcasting the Humanities Residency Program, 2021

• Alice C. Langdale Award for Exceptional English Graduate Student, University of Georgia, 2020

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia, 2020

• Recognized by ΑΟΠ, ΛΣ for significant, positive academic contributions to members, 2020

• South Atlantic MLA Graduate Student Essay Award, 2018