Peter Jay Ingrao is Associate Professor of Instruction in Literary Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. During his time at UTD, Dr. Ingrao has won the ROTA (Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards) and the Victor Worsfold Outstanding Teaching Award. Recent conference presentations include comic book pedagogy and southern studies, and a comparison of works by Jesmyn Ward and William Faulkner. Recent publications include an article on “Grit Lit” and Larry Brown in the Routledge Companion to the Literature of the U.S. South. He is in process of submitting an article based on his conference presentation concerning Jesmyn Ward and William Faulkner, as well as an article concerning Flannery O’Connor and convenience store culture in the South.