Gary Richards, associate professor of English, was recently a member of the discussion panel composed of contributors to The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South at the Louisiana Book Festival, held in Baton Rouge on November 2. He also led the One Book: One Festival discussion devoted to Shirley Anne Grau’s 1961 novel, The House on Coliseum Street. The previous month he moderated the panel devoted to war in North Carolina literature at the American Literature Association’s “War and American Literature” Symposium held in New Orleans October 10-12.