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Advisory Board unanimously elects Michael Kreyling as faculty chair

NASHVILLE - During the first meeting of the Advisory Board on January 21, the voting members unanimously elected Michael Kreyling, professor of English and director of American and Southern Studies, as Faculty Chair for the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal.

Michael Kreyling received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1975. Before coming to Vanderbilt in 1985, he taught at Mississippi State University and Tulane University. At Vanderbilt, he teaches classes in twentieth century American literature; Southern literature; American and Southern studies; and the works of authors such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. He is the author of six books, which include Figures of the Hero in Southern Narrative (1986), Understanding Eudora Welty (1999), and Inventing Southern Literature (1998), which won the Eudora Welty Prize. He has also published numerous articles, primarily on Southern literature from the antebellum period up through the twentieth century, in journals such as the Southern Review, Southern Quarterly, and American Literary History.