South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History

Janis P. Stout is a professor emerita of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author or editor of numerous scholarly books, including Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times and Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion. She is also the author of three novels and, most recently, a memoir, This Last House: A Retirement Memoir.