Author: Megan Hunt

Megan is an Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate in American Studies at Northumbria University. Her PhD research highlights the ways in which southern religious stereotypes intersect with the racial and class-based distinctions used to indicate the region in Hollywood film. Looking specifically at cinema depicting the southern civil rights movement, she has contributed chapters to edited collections on The Help and Selma. She has also participated in a roundtable on religion in American history due for publication with the Journal of American Studies, and sits on the executive committee of HOTCUS (Historians of the Twentieth Century United States.)