About
Dr Siân Round is a writer, researcher, and teacher based in Cardiff, Wales. She is a specialist in literatures of the US South, print culture studies, and the Harlem Renaissance.
She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Swansea University, where she is working on a project titled ‘The Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Tour, 1919-1935’. Focusing on authors including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Anne Spencer, and Sterling A. Brown, this project aims to use the tour as a lens for studying African American encounters with the culture of the US South in the post-Great Migration period.
Her first monograph, The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-45, is under contract with the University of Georgia Press, as part of their Print Culture in the South series. Building on her doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge, 2023), this monograph provides the first critical study of literary magazines in the US South . It explores how the affordances of the periodical form (seriality, circulation, ephemerality) enabled editors and contributors to negotiate the label of ‘Southernness’. Research from this project has appeared in the Journal of American Studies, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies and the Routledge Companion to Literature of the US South.
She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the University of Virginia, Emory University, the British Association for American Studies and the Bibliographical Society. Recent projects have included organising a conference on Radical Print Cultures in the US South, developing a series of How To videos for the British Association for American Studies, and writing a book chapter on Anne Spencer.
If you would like to work with Siân or hear more about her work, don’t hesitate to get in touch at sian.round@swansea.ac.uk.
Dr Siân Round