Faculty Profiles

Featured scholarly/creative works

• Mellard, J. D. (2021). “Roots of the Ballad Tree: The Kerrville Folk Festival in Historical Context.” In It Can Be This Way Always: Documenting the Kerrville Folk Festival. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.
• Mellard, J. (2017). “These Are My People”: The Politics of Country Music. In T. Stimeling (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Country Music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Mellard, J. D. (2013). Progressive Country:  How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture. University of Texas Press.
• Mellard, J. D. (2023, April). Last Gangster in Austin by Jesse Sublett. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Austin, Texas: Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
• Mellard, J. D. (2023, April 25). Willie Nelson at 90: Country Music’s Elder Statesmen Still on the Road Again.