Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature, written by John Wharton Lowe, the Barbara Lester Methvin Professor of English in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of the 2017 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.
The award is named for the faculty member who taught Southern literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for three decades and helped to establish the National Humanities Center.
The annual award is for the best book of literary scholarship or literary criticism in the field of Southern literature during a given calendar year. The 2017 award recognizes a book produced in 2016; it comes with a plaque and a $1,000 check. It will be presented to Lowe at the Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago.
Lowe came to UGA from Louisiana State University in 2012.
