Taylor Hagood is Professor of American Literature at Florida Atlantic University, the institution which houses the Theodore Pratt Collection. He is the author or editor of eight books and over seventy short publications. His scholarly monographs include Faulkner’s Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth (LSU Press, 2008); Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Playwrights (Ohio State University Press, 2010); and Faulkner, Writer of Disability (LSU Press, 2014), which won the C. Hugh Holman Award for Best Book in Southern Studies. His co-edited book, Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture (LSU Press, 2105), was reviewed in a range of venues, was well-received in the field, and spawned a subseries which has included his coedited 2020 volume, Swamps Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies. His biography/true crime, Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend, is forthcoming as part of the University of Illinois Press’s "Music in American Life" series as one of the last endorsements of Loretta Lynn. He has lectured in the United States, Canada, South American, and Europe to both academic and general audiences. He regularly lectures in south Florida at The Society of the Four Arts, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Palm Beach Historical Society, and private clubs such as Boca West Country Club, BallenIsles Country Club, and Heron Bay. Professor Hagood lives in West Palm Beach Florida