Davis, Hugh
Professor, English | Chair, Department of Humanities
Campus:
DemorestOffice:
Arrendale Library, 106Education:
PhD, Twentieth-Century American & British Literature, University of Tennessee
MA, English, University of Alabama
BA, English & Classical Languages, Belhaven College
Publications:
Books:
The Making of James Agee. University of Tennessee Press, 2008.
Editor, The Works of James Agee, Volume 10: Letters. University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming 2026.
Editor, The Works of James Agee, Volume 3: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. University of Tennessee Press, 2015.
Editor, with Michael A. Lofaro, James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Other New Manuscripts. University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Articles:
“The Nose Knows: Olfaction and Detection in ‘The Illustrious Client’ and The Sign of Four,” Studies in the Literary Imagination: Special Issue on Knowledge and Power in the Worlds of Sherlock Holmes 28.1 (forthcoming Spring 2026).
“The Autonomous Eye in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Blind Man,” in Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture. Ed. Gilad Padva and Yair Koren-Maimon. London: Routledge, 2025.
‘Tidmore and the Negro’: An Unpublished Chapter from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” in James Agee in Context: New Literary, Cultural, and Historical Essays. Ed. Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2022.
“Roman Virtus and Machiavellian Virtú in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather,” Studies in Popular Culture” 42.2 (Spring 2020): 92–111.
“‘Monkey Meat’ and Metaphor in Shohei Ooka’s Fires on the Plain,” Exchanges: Special Issue on Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines 7.2 (Winter 2020): 200–214.
“‘As If Admonished from Another World’: Wordsworth’s Prelude, Schopenhauer, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men at 75: Anniversary Essays. Ed. Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2017. 95–112.
“‘Some Are Born to Endless Night’: The Blakean Vision of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man,” in Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema. Ed. Marlisa Santos. New York: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 81–94.
“‘Drinking at Wells Sunk beneath Privies’: Agee and Surrealism,” in Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee. Ed. Michael A. Lofaro. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 85–104.
“‘How Do You Sniff?’: Havelock Ellis and Olfactory Imagery in ‘Nausicaa,’” James Joyce Quarterly 41.3 (Spring 2004): 421–40.
“‘She Rock’: A ‘New’ Story by Zora Neale Hurston,’” Zora Neale Hurston Forum 18 (2004): 14–20.
“Allusive Resonance in the Woodcut to Spenser’s Aprill,” in Renaissance Papers 2000. Ed. M. Thomas Hester. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 25–40.