Dr. Casey Clabough, associate professor of English at Lynchburg College, has published Gayl Jones: The Language of Voice and Freedom in Her Writings, and has received multiple award consideration for two previous books.
Gayl Jones is an African American woman writer whose works include Corregidora (1975) and the National Book Award finalist The Healing (1998). Dr. Clabough's book addresses the themes and controversies surrounding Jones and her work, including gender-based violence, psychoanalysis, Afrocentrism, and mythopoesis.
Two of Dr. Clabough's recent books have received award consideration. The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route (2007), was nominated for the 2008 Appalachian Book of the Year and the Library of Virginia's Book of the Year. Dr. Clabough's The Art of the Magic Striptease: The Literary Layers of George Garrett (2008), has been nominated for both the 2009 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book of the Year and the 2009 C. Hugh Holman Award.