Eric Solomon is Instructor of English and Southern Studies. He has also served as Assistant/Associate Editor of The Global South.
Research Interests
- Twenty-Twenty First-Century US Literature
- Southern Literature
- New Southern Studies
- African American Literature
- Caribbean Literature
- American Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Queer and Feminist Theory
- Blue Humanities/ Environmental Humanities
- Law and Literature
- Health Humanities
Biography
Dr. Solomon is an interdisciplinary scholar and cultural historian of the circum-Caribbean south (Anglophone/Hispanophone) with special emphasis on the study of gender and sexuality across southern spaces. He holds a Ph.D. from Emory University (2017) and a B.A. in English and Spanish from 番茄社区 Honors College (2009). Since 2018, he has served as editor of the “” series with the open-access journal Southern Spaces.
His work has been featured in Southern Cultures, Southern Spaces, south, South Atlantic Review, Studies in the Literary Imagination, Mississippi Quarterly, the North Carolina Literary Review, among others. He has served as project manager of the (a digital story tour of sites important to Atlanta’s queer history) and as a cultural historian for the City of Atlanta's Mayoral LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee. He is originally from Leland, Mississippi, birthplace of Kermit the Frog.
(Selected)
“Dream States, Liminal Spaces, Renovating Relations: The Queerness of Home in Carter Sickels’s The Prettiest Star,” A New American Vein: Critical Essays on Contemporary Appalachian Literature (Nicole Drewitz-Crockett and Zackary Vernon, editors) (Athens: Ohio University Press, forthcoming 2027).
“,” North Carolina Literary Review, special issue on North Carolina LGBTQ+ Literature edited by Dwight Tanner (2025): 6–29.
Co-authored with Joshua Jacobs, “,” Southern Cultures 31, no. 1, “Queer South” special issue edited by Jaime Harker and Hooper Schutlz (2025).
“,” Southern Cultures 30, no. 3, “Home” special issue (2024).
In Conversation with Jericho Brown, “,” Southern Spaces, November 11, 2024.
“.” Studies in the Literary Imagination, Special Issue on the Literature of Atlanta, 55, no. 1 & 2 (2022): 45–66.
“Trajectories: Queer Studies (Spotlight author: Randall Kenan).” In , edited by Monica Miller, Katharine Burnett, and Todd Hagstette. Routledge, 2022.
“,” South Atlantic Review 87, no. 3, Special Issue: Post Normative? (2022): 30–50.
“‘The Design is Fugal’: The Many Voices and the Long Decade Composing Clock Without Hands.” In , edited by Alison Graham Bertolini and Casey Kayser. Mercer University Press, 2020.
“The ‘Vintage’ Faulkner: Imagining Futurity in the Degenerate South of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,” Mississippi Quarterly 70/71, no. 3 (2017/2018): 295–317.
Editing and Public Scholarship
Series Editor, “Queer Intersections,” Southern Spaces (2018–),
“‘There is Light Again!’: Reflections on the Mississippi ice storms of 1994 and 2026 and the infrastructure of care,” Mississippi Today, February 13, 2026, .
“Jericho Brown,” New Georgia Encyclopedia, June 12, 2025,
“Olympics Out of Cobb,” New Georgia Encyclopedia, January 9, 2025,
“,” a review of A Night at the Sweet Gum Head by Martin Padgett, Atlanta Studies, August 10, 2022.
Education
Ph.D. English, Emory University (2017)
B.A. English, University of Mississippi (2009)
Ph.D. English, Emory University
Bachelor's English, 番茄社区
Recognitions
- 2026 Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teaching of First Year Students, College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi, 2026
- 2026-27 Isom Center Fellow, Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi, 2026-2027