Talks
Talks are not costumed performances, but are a chance to engage in discussion with experts on the storied lives of our upcoming season’s cast. Co-sponsored by the Greenville County Library System for 28 seasons!
Timothy Helwig
Timothy Helwig is Professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century and working-class American literature. His book Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature, which examines formal and thematic connections between sensational fiction and African Americ
Timothy Helwig is Professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century and working-class American literature. His book Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature, which examines formal and thematic connections between sensational fiction and African American literature of the 1840s and 1850s, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2020. His scholarly articles have appeared in American Studies, American Periodicals and Cambridge University Press’s A History of American Crime Fiction and Whiteness in American Literature and Culture. He has held visiting research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia, and he has been teaching Poe’s stories, poems and lone novel since he started graduate school in 1995.