Davis, Hugh
Professor, English
Chair, Department of Humanities
Campus:
DemorestOffice:
Arrendale Library 106Education:
Ph.D., English, University of Tennessee Knoxville;
M.A., English, University of Alabama;
B.A., English, Belhaven College
M.A., English, University of Alabama;
B.A., English, Belhaven College
Publications:
Books:
The Making of James Agee.聽University of Tennessee Press, 2008.
贰诲颈迟辞谤,听The Works of James Agee, Volume 10: Letters.聽University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming 2026.
Editor,聽The Works of James Agee, Volume 3: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.聽University of Tennessee Press, 2015.
Editor, with Michael A. Lofaro,聽James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of聽Let Us Now Praise Famous Men聽and Other New Manuscripts. University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Articles:
鈥淭he Nose Knows: Olfaction and Detection in 鈥楾he Illustrious Client鈥� and聽The Sign of Four,鈥澛�Studies in the Literary Imagination: Special Issue on Knowledge and Power in the Worlds of Sherlock Holmes聽28.1 (forthcoming Spring 2026).
鈥淭he Autonomous Eye in Alfred Hitchcock鈥檚聽The Blind Man,鈥� in聽Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture. Ed. Gilad Padva and Yair Koren-Maimon. London: Routledge, 2025.
鈥楾idmore and the Negro鈥�: An Unpublished Chapter from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,鈥� in James Agee in Context: New Literary, Cultural, and Historical Essays.聽Ed. Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2022.
鈥凌辞尘补苍听Virtus聽and Machiavellian聽痴颈谤迟煤聽in Francis Ford Coppola鈥檚聽The Godfather,鈥澛�Studies in Popular Culture” 42.2 (Spring 2020): 92鈥�111.
鈥溾�楳onkey Meat鈥� and Metaphor in Shohei Ooka鈥檚聽Fires on the Plain,鈥澛�Exchanges: Special Issue on Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines 7.2 (Winter 2020): 200鈥�214.
鈥溾�楢s If Admonished from Another World鈥�: Wordsworth鈥檚聽笔谤别濒耻诲别,听Schopenhauer, and聽Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,鈥� in聽Let Us Now Praise Famous Men at 75: Anniversary Essays.聽Ed. Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2017. 95鈥�112.
鈥溾�楽ome Are Born to Endless Night鈥�: The Blakean Vision of Jim Jarmusch鈥檚聽Dead Man,鈥� in聽Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema.聽Ed. Marlisa Santos. New York: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 81鈥�94.
鈥溾�楧rinking at Wells Sunk beneath Privies鈥�: Agee and Surrealism,鈥� in聽Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee.聽Ed. Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 85鈥�104.
鈥溾�楬ow Do You Sniff?鈥�: Havelock Ellis and Olfactory Imagery in 鈥楴ausicaa,鈥欌�澛�James Joyce Quarterly聽41.3 (Spring 2004): 421鈥�40.
鈥溾�楽he Rock鈥�: A 鈥楴ew鈥� Story by Zora Neale Hurston,鈥欌�澛�Zora Neale Hurston Forum聽18 (2004): 14鈥�20.
鈥淎llusive Resonance in the Woodcut to Spenser鈥檚聽Aprill,鈥� in聽Renaissance Papers 2000.聽Ed. M. Thomas Hester. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 25鈥�40.