Erich Nunn
Erich Nunn, Assistant Professor, received his PhD from the University of Virginia in 2009. He specializes in American Studies, with an emphasis on the U.S. South, and is working on a book manuscript entitled Sounding the Color Line: Race, Music, and American Modernism. He has been a fellow at the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, the Appalachian Sound Archives at Berea College, and the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.
Representative Publications
- "'Don't Play No Blues': Race, Music, and Mourning in Faulkner's Sanctuary." The Faulkner Journal 24.1-2 (Spring 2009).
- "Rufus 'Tee Tot' Payne" and "William Thomas (Buckwheat)." African American National Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham. Oxford UP, 2008.
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