Sharon MonteithSharon Monteith is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Cultural History at Nottingham Trent University. She is author of Advancing Sisterhood? Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction (2000) and Pat Barker (2002) and coauthor of Film Histories (2007). Among other volumes she is co-editor of Gender and the Civil Rights Movement (1999; 2004) and South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (2002). Read More Read Less