ENAM 3880

The readings are interesting for the most part (Faulker, Chestnutt, Poe, Flannery O'Connor) and Greeson is super smart but she strongly brings political bias into the class which can get pretty old pretty quickly. She does act like the South has zero redeemable qualities and that it would probably be better if it never existed. However, if you can get past that part of her lectures, the class is good. Her interpretations are fairly high level, but the TAs do a good job of helping clarify.

Course is very easy if you stay on top of readings. Take home midterm, in-class final, and two 5-6 page papers. Also your TA might assign occasional writing prompts.
Greeson comes at most of the readings with a distinctly negative tone, which can get a bit old - without exception, she frames everywhere south of the mason dixon line as an irredeemable deeply evil hellscape. Take the class with friends and you'll be in for a smooth semester.

Good class; the lectures are a little dull and uninteresting. Your grade really depends on your TA, but as long as you can contribute to the discussion once in a while you will be fine. Lots of reading.

I took this course in the summer, so there was no TA. It was great - Greeson is wonderful. The readings were all awesome & the prof is so amazing. I recommend taking the course in summer if you can - managable workload so it doesn't ruin your life for 3 weeks & as long as you stay with it & participate you'll be looking at a great grade. One of my fav classes here.

Greeson is an amazing lecturer - she is very knowledgeable and she makes each lecture very interesting. I really like how she incorporated music and video clips related to our reading into each lecture. She is also very friendly, willing to help, and approachable. There were only 2 papers, 3 brief reading responses, and a final. Its an extremely fair class, pretty easy if you stay up on your reading. I definitely recommend this class.

Literature of the South was an excellent class - challenging, interesting, and informative. I'd highly recommend it.

Greeson was awesome. Very informative lectures. Some of the reading was a bit dull and the TA was less enthusiastic.