Christopher Metress, Ph.D., professor of English and director of the University Fellows Program at Samford University

Chris Metress is professor of English and director of the University Fellows Program at Samford University. After receiving his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt in 1990, he taught at Wake Forest University in North Carolina for three years before coming to Birmingham in 1993. His special interests include Southern literature and history, and his work on Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird is part of a larger study of white southern writers and the civil rights movement. His 2002 anthology The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative was published by the University of Virginia Press and was featured in new stories in the Washington Post , the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and The Nation magazine, as well as on ABC World News Tonight . He has lectured widely on Southern literature and history, including talks at the University of Alabama, New York University, the University of Connecticut and Wolfson College, Oxford.

Presentations by Christopher Metress
The Rise and Fall of Atticus Finch