About

Gina Caison is the Kenneth M. England Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University where she teaches courses in American literature, Indigenous literatures, southern literatures, and documentary practices. From 2020-22, she served as president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and during the 2020-21 academic year, she was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest.

Her first book Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies (UGA Press, 2018) won the 2019 C. Hugh Holman Award for the best book in southern literary studies. Along with Lisa Hinrichsen and Stephanie Rountree, she is co-editor of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU Press, 2017) and Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South (LSU Press, 2021). Their next edited collection, Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South out of Region, is under contract with LSU Press for publication in 2025. She also serves as an associate general editor of the Broadview Anthology of American Literature.

In addition to these projects, Dr. Caison’s work has appeared in academic journals including The Global South, Mississippi Quarterly, Native South, and PMLA. She has been a short-term research fellow at the American Antiquarian Society and the UNC Southern Historical Collection, and she has participated in NEH-sponsored programs at the Newberry Library, UNC-Chapel Hill’s American Indian Center, and Georgia College & State University’s Flannery O’Connor Collection. From 2016-2019, she worked as creator, co-producer, and host of the weekly podcast About South. 

Her new book, Erosion: American Environments & the Anxiety of Disappearance, is available from Duke University Press.

CV available upon request.