Brannon Costello
Biography
Brannon Costello is the James F. Cassidy Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin, which was awarded the Comics Studies Society's inaugural Charles Hatfield Prize for Best Scholarly Book, and Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction. He is the editor of the interview collections Conversations with Michael Chabon and Howard Chaykin: Conversations, and co-editor of The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade and Comics and the U.S. South.
Schedule
11:15 am to Noon
Capitol Park Museum Auditorium
A Conversation with Rodney Barnes
with Rodney Barnes and moderator Brannon Costello
Moderator
Volunteer
Book-loving volunteers are essential to the Louisiana Book Festival's success. Whether it's escorting authors, guiding visitors, selling refreshments, working with children in the Young Readers Pavilion or other fun and rewarding assignments, the Louisiana Book Festival wants you to join the volunteer team.