Dr. Richard Megraw Associate Professor of American Studies
rmegraw@tenhoor.as.ua.edu(205) 348-9765
Education: - Missouri Valley College (B.A.)
- Louisiana State Univ. (M.A., Ph. D.)
Research Focus:
Specialty Fields:
- Modern American society and culture, the American West, sports in America, public art
Selected Publications
Recent PublicationConfronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana (forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi). Book Chapters"The Writing on the Wall: Mural Art in New Deal Louisiana,"
Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 21(1996): 327-45.
"'The Most Perfect Expressions of Locality': Ellsworth Woodward and The Newcomb Pottery," in John Lowe, ed.,
Redefining Southern Culture, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
"'The Grandest Picture': Lyle Saxon and the Problem of Aesthetic Localism in Thirties America," in John Lowe, ed.,
Pelican Eyes, Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming.
