Walking Tour

The Literary Knox website was envisioned by professor Bill Hardwig with vital assistance from John Nichols. Bill and John are members of the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Special thanks go to several members of the Knoxville community for their help with this project: Jill Knight and Jill Knight Design, Wes Morgan and his website Searching for Suttree, Jack Neely and The Knoxville History Project, Angie Wilson and the folks at Visit Knoxville, and Steve Cotham and The East Tennessee Historical Society. Special thanks also go out to the entire University of Tennessee, Knoxville English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Cultural Tour

The Literary Knox Cultural Tour began as a multi-departmental installation celebrating the multidisciplinary interest in Knoxville’s shadowy side. The departments of English and of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature, both at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, joined efforts to curate the materials found within this site.

The exhibit, and thus this site, received generous support from: Archive Alexis Schwarzenbach, Buddy and the Huddle, Roland Kopp and Michael Stöll, Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta, Goethe Zentrum Atlanta, The Swiss Literary Archives SLA, The Swiss National Library, The Mildred Haines and William Elijah Morris Endowment Grant, UT College of Arts and Sciences, the UT Departments of English, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Theatre, the UT German Program, the Cobble Fund for the Enrichment of Undergraduate Studies in German at UT, the UT programs of Africana Studies, Cinema Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the UT Humanities Center, the UT Office of Research and Engagement, the UT Ready for the World Initiative, and UT Libraries.

Sources of the quotes and images displayed in the exhibit are: Archival material (images and text), Annemarie Schwarzenbach Archive, Swiss National Library/Swiss Literary Archives, Berne, Switzerland; Archive Alexis Schwarzenbach, Zurich, ©2018 by Alexis Schwarzenbach; Buddy and the Huddle, Bandcamp Website; Photographs by Roland Kopp and Michael Ströll (Buddy and the Huddle); private collection; McCarthy, Cormac. Suttree. New York: Vintage Books, 1979; Schwarzenbach, Annemarie. Auf der Schattenseite. Regina Dieterle and Roger Perret (eds.). Basel: Lenos, 1995

The exhibit was conceived by: Bill Hardwig, PhD of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of English and Stefanie Ohnesorg, PhD of The University of Tennessee Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Schwarzenbach translations from German by Ohnesorg. Exhibit and brochure designer: Susanne S. Cate. Website designer: Jill Knight.