About the Author

Teresa A. Toulouse, Boulder, Colorado, is professor of English at University of Colorado, Boulder, previously serving as long-time professor of English and director of the American Studies Department at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Barbara C. Ewell, New Orleans, Louisiana, is former Dorothy Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans, where she taught for three decades.

Reviews

As a whole, the collection succeeds in its insistence on a creative analytical approach that, rather than simply reproducing romantic tropes often associated with New Orleans, contributes to our understanding of how such tropes are produced. Despite the distinctive abundance of in-between spaces in New Orleans, these spaces are less a proprietary signature of the city than they are an invitation to consider the quirkiness and symbolic potential of urban interstitiality. For decades, postcolonial scholars have argued that the in-between is a deeply generative and powerful space, and Sweet Spots is a pragmatic multidisciplinary project that continues to plead their case.--Christopher M. Grant, University of Chicago "Winterthur Portfolio"

In the contemporary post-urban landscape, neglected, disused, or leftover spaces often exist somewhere between dereliction and a state of nature. For the editors of Sweet Spots, these 'inbetween' spaces are a defining and active element of nineteenth-century urban form, particularly of New Orleans's Vieux Carr�. . . . Fascinating and illuminating--like the city itself.--Gary Van Zante, curator of architecture and design, MIT Museum

The authors of each essay beautifully capture the uniqueness of New Orleans in a compelling and engaging way. As a result, the reader is left with an overwhelming appreciation of the city's Sweet Spots, gaining a new understanding of why New Orleans maintains popularity and appeal for locals and visitors alike, and the wide variety of experts, from historians, to sociologists, to geographers, and beyond, bring a diversity of approaches to the study of this great city.--Lacy Molina, University of North Texas "Louisiana History"