JULIE BUCKNER ARMSTRONG
Professor, Literature
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Office: DAV 255
Phone: 727-873-4061
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BIO
Julie Buckner Armstrong is a civil rights and southern literature scholar. Her research interests include literary engagements with segregation, the civil rights movement, and other social justice issues. Armstrong has been the recipient of the Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity at USF鈥檚 St. Petersburg campus.
Armstrong is the author of 鈥淢ary Turner and the Memory of Lynching,鈥� which recounts the 1918 lynching of a pregnant woman and the way the event resonated with activists, artists, writers and local residents for years to come. The book received the C. Hugh Holman Award Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Armstrong is also the editor of the 鈥淐ambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature鈥� and 鈥淭he Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation,鈥� as well as the co-editor of 鈥淭eaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom鈥檚 Bittersweet Song.鈥� Her scholarly and creative work has been published in the African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Narratively, the Chattahoochee Review, and elsewhere.
Armstrong teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including ones on American literature, African American literature, racial violence, and women writers. She is currently writing Learning from Birmingham, a book about everyday people and places in the iconic civil rights movement city where she was born.
EDUCATION
- M.A., University of Memphis
- Ph.D., New York University