Florence Dore is professor of American Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she has been on the faculty since 2010. She has just completed&nbsp;Novel Sounds: Southern Ballad Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll&nbsp;(2018), and she is working on a sequel,&nbsp;Novel&nbsp;Sounds II:&nbsp;The Rock Novel in Contemporary American Fiction. In 2016 and 2017, Dore convened “Novel Sounds,” a public conference and concert series at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She was co-editor of the Post45 Book Series at Stanford University Press from 2009 to 2014, and she remains&nbsp;a member of Post45’s Steering Committee.

Florence Dore

J. D. Connor is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession (2018) and The Studios After the Studios (2015).

J. D. Connor

Dan Sinykin is an assistant professor of English at Emory University.

Dan Sinykin

Rebel Yale: Reading and Feeling “Hillbilly Elegy”

Education

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Florence Dore is professor of American Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she has been on the faculty since 2010. She has just completed&nbsp;Novel Sounds: Southern Ballad Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll&nbsp;(2018), and she is working on a sequel,&nbsp;Novel&nbsp;Sounds II:&nbsp;The Rock Novel in Contemporary American Fiction. In 2016 and 2017, Dore convened “Novel Sounds,” a public conference and concert series at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She was co-editor of the Post45 Book Series at Stanford University Press from 2009 to 2014, and she remains&nbsp;a member of Post45’s Steering Committee.