Julie Buckner Armstrong is author of Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching (University of Georgia Press, 2011) and editor of multiple books on the civil rights movement including, most recently, the Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015). At USFSP she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in literature and cultural studies. When she is not teaching, she likes to walk, canoe, travel, and waste time on social media. Her publications also include, as editor, The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation (University of Georgia Press, 2010); and, as co-editor, with Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Robertson, and Rhonda J. Williams, Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom’s Bittersweet Song (Routledge, 2002). Dr. Armstrong is currently working on a collection of essays called Birmingham Stories, about everyday people and places in the iconic civil rights movement city where she was born.