{"id":948,"date":"2024-07-23T21:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=948"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:03:51","slug":"kemeshia-randle-swanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2024\/kemeshia-randle-swanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemeshia Randle Swanson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>Maverick Feminist<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Eudora Welty Prize<\/strong> <strong>2024<\/strong><br><strong>October 26, 10:10 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kemeshia Randle Swanson is this year&#8217;s recipient of the Eudora Welty Prize for a book published by the University Press of Mississippi in the fields of Literary Studies, Women&#8217;s Studies, or Southern Studies. Originally from the Delta, she is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Mississippi State University. Her research interests include 20th and 21st Century African American literature, Southern literature, gender and sexuality studies, and Hip Hop and popular culture. <em>Maverick Feminist<\/em> is her debut collection of essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.english.msstate.edu\/directory\/klr119\">MSU website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-8cf370e7 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\/2024\/09\/kswanson_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/kswanson_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/kswanson_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/maverickfeminist-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/maverickfeminist-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/09\/maverickfeminist-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Maverick Feminist<br \/>\nEudora Welty Prize<br \/>\nOctober 26, 10:10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}