Coleman Hutchison
Associate Professor — Ph.D., 2006, Northwestern University

Contact
- E-mail: coleman.hutchison@utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-8372
- Office: CAL 314
- Office Hours: By appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
U.S. literature and culture to 1900; the U.S. south; the American Civil War; poetry; print culture
Biography
Coleman Hutchison (Ph.D., Northwestern, 2006) teaches and writes about U.S. literature and culture to 1900. He has abiding interests in poetry, print culture, southern literature, popular and folk music, and histories of sexuality. His work has appeared in American Literary History, Common-Place, Comparative American Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, The Global South, Journal of American Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, PMLA, south, and Southern Spaces, among other venues.
He is the author of the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America, the co-author of a guide for students entitled Writing About American Literature, and the editor of A History of American Civil War Literature.
Hutchison is working on two books-in-progress: "The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry, 1863-2009" and a popular biography of “Dixie.” The former project studies the interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obama’s inauguration; the latter tells the story of how a song gave a region a nickname, and how that nickname helped to shape the region’s cultural identity.
Hutchison's research has been supported by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Antiquarian Society, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Boston Athenaeum, the Huntington Library and the South Caroliniana Library. In 2010 Hutchison received a UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award and in 2015 a President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award.
Hutchison is a past president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.
Courses
E 340 • The American Novel Before 1920
36455 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 5:00PM-6:30PM MEZ 1.102
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E 350V • Grateful Dead In Am Lit/Cul
36525 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM MEZ 1.212
IIWr
E 342S • Southern Literature-Wb
36125 • Spring 2021
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
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E 358F • Faulkner And O'Connor-Wb
36195 • Spring 2021
Meets MW 1:00PM-2:30PM
Internet; Synchronous
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E 349S • Edgar Allan Poe-Wb
34990 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM
Internet; Synchronous
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E 372L • The American Renaissance-Wb
35085 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 5:00PM-6:30PM
Internet; Synchronous
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E 350R • Lit/Cul Mem/Amer Civ War-Hon
35550 • Spring 2020
Meets MW 1:00PM-2:30PM PAR 210
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(also listed as LAH 350)
E 340 • The American Novel Before 1920
35035 • Fall 2019
Meets MW 1:00PM-2:30PM PAR 208
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E 342S • Southern Literature
35040 • Fall 2019
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM BEN 1.126
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E S338 • Amer Lit: From 1865 To Present
80784 • Summer 2019
Meets MTWTHF 2:30PM-4:00PM PAR 204
E F316M • American Literature-Wb
81595 • Summer 2017
Internet; Asynchronous
CD
HU
E 316M • American Literature
35060-35235 • Spring 2017
Meets MW 11:30AM-1:00PM
Two-way Interactive Video
CD
HU
E 349S • Edgar Allan Poe
35440 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM PAR 306
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E S321 • Shakespeare: Sel Plays-Gbr
82090 • Summer 2016
GC
E 316M • American Literature
34180-34375 • Spring 2016
Meets MW 11:30AM-1:00PM
Two-way Interactive Video
CD
E 321 • Shakespeare: Selected Plays
34415 • Fall 2015
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM PAR 105
GC
E 316M • American Literature
34470-34515 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WCH 1.120
CD
E 350R • Am Lit, Cul, And The Civil War
35850 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CAL 200
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(also listed as LAH 350)
E F316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
83135 • Summer 2014
Meets MTWTHF 11:30AM-1:00PM CLA 0.126
E 316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
35255-35290 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WCH 1.120
HU
E 395M • Re-Read Amer South In Lit/Film
36357 • Spring 2014
Meets M 6:00PM-9:00PM MEZ 2.102
UGS 303 • Literature Of Sport
65925-65940 • Fall 2013
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 201
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E S321 • Shakespeare: Sel Plays-Eng
83730 • Summer 2013
GC
E 349S • Edgar Allan Poe
35495 • Spring 2013
Meets MW 5:00PM-6:30PM PAR 308
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E 603A • Comp And Reading In World Lit
34565 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 302
E F316K • Masterworks Of Lit: American
83600 • Summer 2012
Meets MTWTHF 8:30AM-10:00AM GAR 0.102
HU
E 372L • The American Renaissance
35451 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM PAR 101
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E 679HA • Honors Tutorial Course
35510 • Fall 2011
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 204
E 340 • The Amer Novel Before 1920-W
34800 • Spring 2010
Meets MW 3:30PM-5:00PM PAR 206
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C2
E 679HA • Honors Tutorial Course
35270 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 105
Publications
The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism. Timelines of American Literature. Christopher Hager and Cody Marrs, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 109-122.
Civil War Today, Civil War Tomorrow, Civil War Forever. American Literary History. 30.2 (Summer 2018): 331-342.
In the Land Where We Were Dreaming. south 48.1 (Spring 2016): 44-51.
Here, There, Everywhere: C.S. Giscombe and the Poetics of Locality. Global South 9.1 (Spring 2015): 107-123.
Truth and Consequences: Helping Students to Contextualize the Literary Aftermath of the American Civil War. Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War. Colleen Glenney Boggs, ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2016. 43-52.
Surplus Patriotism: William Gilmore Simms’s War Poetry of the South and the Afterlife of Confederate Literary Nationalism. Literary Cultures of the Civil War. Timothy Sweet, ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 141-164.
Book History. Critical Terms for Southern Studies. Jennifer Rae Greeson and Scott Romine, eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 239-249. Published.
(with Elizabeth Bradford Frye) What Remains Where: Civil War Poetry and Photography across 150 Years. Undead Souths: Beyond the Gothic. Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Daniel Cross Turner, eds. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.
“Notes on the Text: The Dixie Land Songster." Common-place 14.3 (April 2014).
The Brand New Southern Studies Waltz. Journal of American Studies. 48.3 (August 2014): 694-697.
Editor, A History of American Civil War Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
(with Karen Gocsik) Writing about American Literature: A Guide for Students. New York: Norton, 2014.
Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism. Southern Spaces 25 December 2012.
Popular Poetry in Circulation (with Elizabeth Renker). In U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920. Christine Bold, ed. Part of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. Gary Kelly, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 395-413.
After the Third World. A special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review. Co-edited with Barbara Harlow, James Cox, Jeremy Dean, Molly Hardy, and Neville Hoad.10.1 (Spring 2010).
“Secret in Altered Lines": The Civil War Song in Manuscript, Print, and Performance Publics. In Sandra Gustafson and Caroline Sloat, eds. Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in the United States before 1900. University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. 255-275
"Song of Myself" Audiotext
On the Move Again: Tracking the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez. Comparative American Studies, 5.4 (Winter 2007): 423-440.
Whistling Dixie for the Union (Nation, Anthem, Revision). American Literary History 19.3 (Fall 2007): 603-628.
Breaking the Book Known as Q. PMLA 121.1 (January 2006): 33-66.
"Eastern Exiles": Dickinson, Whiggery, and War. The Emily Dickinson Journal 13.2 (Fall 2004): 1-26.
Recent Courses
Undergraduate
English 603A: Reading and Composition in World Literature (Plan II)
English 603B: Reading and Composition in World Literature (Plan II)
English 316K: Masterworks of American Literature
English 316M: American Literature
English 321: Shakespeare
English 338: American Literature from 1865-Present
English 340: The American Novel to 1920
English 342S: Southern Literature
English 349S: Edgar Allan Poe
English 350R/376L/379S: Literature, Cultural Memory, and the American Civil War (Honors)
English 358: William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor
English 368H/679HA: Honors Tutorial (Honors)
English 372L: The American Renaissance
Undergraduate Studies 303: The Literature of Sport (Signature Course)
English 384K: Approaches to Disciplinary inquiries
English 384K: Journal Publication
English 395M: Re-reading the American South in Literature and Film
English 395M: U.S. Regional Literatures: Problems and Prospects
English 395M: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and the Poetics of the Page