Bryan A. Giemza is Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature at Texas Tech University, USA. He is author or editor of six books, including Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South (2013), winner of the 2014 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Award, and Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott (2017; with Maria Hebert Leiter).