{"id":1295,"date":"2026-07-26T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:12:13","slug":"sarah-gilbreath-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2026\/sarah-gilbreath-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Gilbreath Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>author of <\/strong><em><strong>Of Women and Water<\/strong><\/em><br><strong>Eudora Welty Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarah Gilbreath Ford serves as Professor of English at Baylor University with a focus on Southern Literature, African American Literature, Literature and Law, American Gothic, and Eudora Welty. She is co-editor of <em>The Eudora Welty Review<\/em> and has frequently published scholarship on Eudora Welty&#8217;s fiction, including co-editing a special issue of <em>Women&#8217;s Studies<\/em> on &#8220;Eudora Welty and Feminism,&#8221; which appears this fall as the edited collection <em>Eudora Welty and Stealth Feminism.<\/em> Her previous books include <em><em>Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic<\/em><\/em> and <em>Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/english.artsandsciences.baylor.edu\/person\/dr-sarah-gilbreath-ford\">Author Website<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Contributors\/F\/Ford-Sarah-Gilbreath\">University Press of Mississippi<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/sford_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/sford_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/sford_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/ofwomenandwater400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/ofwomenandwater400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/ofwomenandwater400-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Women and Water<br \/>\nEudora Welty Prize Winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}