Florence Dore (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2016–17)
Project Title, 2008–09
Not Knowing: Racial Equality and Forms of Privacy in Southern Modernism
Kent State University
Project Title, 2016–17
Novel Sounds: The American Novel in the Age of Rock and Roll
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2008–09
Florence Dore wrote several chapters of Not Knowing: Forms of Privacy in the Postwar Southern Novel.
Fellowship Work Summary, 2016–17
Florence Dore completed the majority of revisions for her book Novel Sounds: Southern Ballad Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll (Stanford University Press, 2018). She also convened a two-part conference at the National Humanities Center entitled "Novel Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll" during her fellowship year.