Dr Siân Round

Writing

I have published my research in a variety of outlets for both academic and non-academic audiences. Below is a summary of my publications and media appearances:

Books

  • The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-45 (forthcoming Spring 2027).

Articles and Book Chapters

  1. ‘Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships,‘ Journal of American Studies (First view, 2025), 1-21. (Winner of the Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize 2024-5 and the Arthur Miller Institute Article Prize 2026).
  2. ‘Southern Stories for Northern Readers: Julia Peterkin’s Short Stories in The Reviewer and the Disruption of Dialect’, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 14.1 (Summer 2023), 47-69.
  3. ‘Southern Periodical Cultures’, The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South, eds. Monica Miller, Katie Burnett and Todd Hagstette (London: Routledge, 2022), 125-128.

Book Reviews

  1. “Modernism and the Middle Passage by Laura Winkiel,” Review of English Studies (February 2026)
  2. “Failure as Construction: To Make Negro Literature by Elizabeth McHenry,” Journal of American Studies, 58.4(2025), 658-660.
  3. “New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture ed. by Jesse W. Schwartz and Daniel Worden,” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 14.1 (Summer 2023), 95-99.
  4. “Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture, 1895-1925 by Amanda Sigler,” Review of English Studies, 74.314 (2023), 374-376.
  5. “Magazine Cultures, Jim Crow Politics,” (Review of Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical Cultures by Eurie Dahn), The Cambridge Quarterly, 51.2 (2022), 168-74.
  6. “Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith ed. by Tanya Long Bennett,”, European Journal of American Culture, 4.1 (2022), 96-98.

Online Publications

  1. “Do You Know Your South? How Magazine Readers Shaped One of the South’s Most Successful Novels,” Cambridge Core Blog (2026)
  2. “Double Dealing in the Magazines: The Case of the Coucou Hoax,” The Modernist Review (2022)
  3. “A Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation by Beth Barton Schweiger,” United States Studies Online (2020)
  4. “AMALGAM. Theaster Gates, Liverpool, and Monumentality,” St. Anne’s Academic Review (2020)

Encyclopaedia Entries

Media Appearances

  1. “What Was the Harlem Renaissance?”, America: The Story of the USA (2026)
  2. “Little Magazines and the Southern Renaissance,” USSOcast (2022)
  3. “Interview with Siân Round,” Dope With Lime: A Lillian Smith Podcast (2022)           

Dr Siân Round