Coleman Hutchison
Affiliate Faculty — Ph.D., 2006, Northwestern University
Associate Professor
Contact
- E-mail: coleman.hutchison@utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-8372
- Office: CAL 314
- Office Hours: M/F 12:30-2 pm and by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Biography
Coleman Hutchison (Ph.D., Northwestern, 2006) teaches and writes about U.S. literature and culture to 1900. He has abiding interests in poetry, print culture, regional and national literatures, popular and folk music, and histories of sexuality. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, Comparative American Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, and PMLA, among other venues. He recently pulished the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America. (Reviewed here, here, and here; see also.)
Hutchison is working on two books-in-progress: "The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry, 1863-2009" and a popular biography of “Dixie.” The former project studies the interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obama’s inauguration; the latter tells the story of how a song gave a region a nickname, and how that nickname helped to shape the region’s cultural identity.
Hutchison's research has been supported by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Antiquarian Society, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Huntington Library. In 2010 Hutchison received a UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.
