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he University of Mississippi’s English department is located on an idyllic campus, adjacent to the historic town of Oxford amidst the rolling hills of north Mississippi. Situated conveniently next to the library and near the center of campus, the English department offers four degree programs: B.A., M.A., M.F.A., and the Ph.D.

Why pursue a M.A. or a Ph.D. in English at the University of Mississippi? Excellent course work and research supervision: The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in English offer coursework and research supervision in all areas of British, American, and Anglophone literature, film, cultural studies, and literary theory. We aim to produce outstanding scholars, critics, and teachers of literature and culture. Our program is small, focused, and dynamic. Each class is limited to a few exceptional applicants who receive much individual attention and training. Our program features a curriculum covering a wide array of academic interests from Medieval and Early Modern Studies to contemporary film theory and Studies in the Global South. We also offer opportunities for interdisciplinary work, including programs in Gender Studies, African American, and Southern Studies. Personal mentoring: Our faculty is committed to Competitive financial support: Students admitted taking care of our students. Ph.D. students enter into to the Ph.D. program receive a full five-year funding a comprehensive system of mentoring from the first package. At any given time, we have about 60 students year through the search for academic employment. who are fully funded by teaching fellowships. In Every semester, the department offers pre-professional addition, summer research fellowships, dissertation training seminars initiated by advanced graduate fellowships, and dissertation enhancement grants students and guided by the graduate faculty. are open to advanced students on a competitive basis. These dissertation fellowships release students from teaching assignments so that they may concentrate on finishing their dissertations.

OUR RECENT M.A. GRADUATES Every Ph.D. student will have the opportunity to teach ARE IN PH.D. PROGRAMS AT THE a variety of writing and literature courses and build an impressive teaching portfolio by the time the student s 5NIVERSITY OF !LABAMA s 5NIVERSITY OF )LLINOIS enters the job market. The department also supports 5RBANA #HAMPAIGN s 5NIVERSITY OF &LORIDA professional activities with conference-travel funding. s 5NIVERSITY OF s 5NIVERSITY OF )OWA Lots of resources are available on campus and in a 7ASHINGTON Southern town famous for and dedicated to the literary arts. The university library houses a large collection of monographs and print journals, and a number of electronic databases useful to English graduate students, The Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference attracts including Early English Books Online, 18-Century scholars from all over the globe for a week of Faulkner Collections Online, JSTOR, and Project Muse. scholarship and appreciation every summer. Now in its fourth decade, the Faulkner Conference is the major The Center for the Study of Southern Culture academic event for this world-famous Oxford writer. is situated in the restored Barnard Observatory on campus. It offers one of the few programs in the nation McCool Fellowship in Faulkner Studies: Thanks focusing exclusively on Southern culture. to Leighton and Campbell McCool, the Department of English offers a McCool Dissertation Fellowship for a Ph.D. student writing a dissertation on Faulkner. The prestigious OUR RECENT DOCTORATES year-long fellowship offers a stipend plus tuition remission. ARE EMPLOYED AS The Global South is a scholarly journal housed in the s !SSOCIATE 0ROFESSOR OF %NGLISH AT -ERCYHURST #OLLEGE IN 0ENNSYLVANIA English Department and edited by Dr. Adetayo Alabi. Dedicated to the transnational study of the Global South, s !SSOCIATE 0ROFESSOR OF %NGLISH the journal offers internship opportunities to students AT &LORIDA !TLANTIC 5NIVERSITY interested in editing and working in the journal world. s !SSISTANT 0ROFESSOR OF %NGLISH The Yalobusha Review is a literary journal produced as AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF 4AMPA &, a joint project by the English and art departments and s !SSISTANT 0ROFESSOR OF %NGLISH AT "AYLOR 5NIVERSITY features fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, interviews, artwork and photography.

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“I came to study the life and work “The graduate program in of William Faulkner because of English at UM provided me with the Faulkner collection in our the conceptual framework to library and because our English approach texts and the systems department has the Howry Chair, they critique. The faculty set the offers classes on Faulkner, and highest of expectations for their funds the McCool Fellowship for graduate students, challenging Faulkner Studies, but at UM I’ve also had excellent them to become better readers, thinkers, and professors and mentors who have helped expand writers while preparing them for the rigors and my horizons to have a greater knowledge of all rewards of a career in academia. From seminars American literature and how to discuss and teach it to colloquia to defenses, to picnics at Rowan Oak at the college level. UM has been the best decision and socializing on the town square, the graduate I’ve made in my academic life.” experience at UM enriches and liberates while ˆ0IP 'ORDON $OCTORAL CANDIDATE inviting a lifelong commitment to friendship, &RANCES "ELL -C#OOL &AULKNER $ISSERTATION &ELLOW teaching, scholarship, and service. It set the course for the rest of my life.” ˆ3COTT 4 #HANCELLOR !SSISTANT 0ROFESSOR OF %NGLISH 7EST 0OINT !CADEMY “What I take away most from “The University of Mississippi the English department at UM is a transformative place and is the extraordinary sense of the English department is no community between the faculty exception. The department prides and the graduate students. The itself on its capacity to develop overall attitude towards graduate creative, driven students into students is that of new colleagues creative, driven professionals. In rather than mere students, which fosters a rich my three years at UM, I have grown immensely from and supportive learning environment. Between the the support, encouragement, and criticism I have departmental faculty, the university resources, and received from the faculty and graduate community, the incredible town of Oxford itself, I couldn’t as I have become a better writer and thinker, able to imagine a better Ph.D. program for me.” convert my skills and interests into viable academic ˆ$AN 7ALDEN !SSISTANT 0ROFESSOR work. Also, the program has been a wonderful social "AYLOR 5NIVERSITY experience as it encourages interaction between academic and creative writers, which, in turn, allows for a more productive dialogue between the criticism of literature and its creation.” ˆ#HARLES -OCK -!  $OCTORAL CANDIDATE AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF )LLINOIS

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The annual James Edwin Savage Lecture in the Southern Writers, Southern Writing is a three-day Renaissance. Past speakers include Jean Howard, Louis academic conference hosted by the English graduate Montrose, Mary Beth Rose, Robert Watson, David Scott students every July. It draws graduate students from all Kastan, Patricia Fumerton, and Lawrence Stone. over the country to our campus. The MFA Reading Series is a student-organized activity The Oxford Conference for the Book is an annual featuring writers from within the M.F.A. program here. event that pulls in authors, editors, literary agents and In addition, there is the Visiting Grisham Writers publishers for three days every spring. Designed for Series (recent speakers include Pulitzer Prize winners both readers and writers, it can put you in touch with Robert Hass, Michael Chabon, and Jeffrey Eugenides), an author you admire. and there are over 100 readings a year by nationally acclaimed authors at Square Books. The Edith T. Baine Lecture Series featuring scholars and writers of emerging national importance is an annual event. O UR FACULTY

Adetayo Alabi Leigh Anne Duck Associate Professor Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan Ph.D., University of Chicago Teaching Interests: Postcolonial Teaching Interests: Southern Studies (especially African, African- Literature and Culture, Film, American, and Caribbean), Literary Literary Geography, Modernism. Theory (especially Postcolonial and Feminist), Autobiographical Genre in Comparative Chiyuma Elliott Black Studies. Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Texas Patrick Alexander Teaching Interests: African-American Assistant Professor Literature, The Renaissance/ Ph.D., Duke University New Negro Movement, 20th-Century Teaching Interests: African-American American Literature, Poetry and Literature, 19th-Century American Poetics, Modernism, American Literature, and Critical Prison Studies. Intellectual History.

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Cristin Ellis Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ph.D., New York University Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Teaching Interests: Anglophone Teaching Interests: 19th-Century and Francophone African Literature, American Literature, American Latin American Literature, Postcolonial Romanticism, Literature, Ecology. Theory, Genre and Narrative Theory, Marxism and Marxist Cultural Criticism, Theories of Aesthetics and Beth Ann Fennelly Politics, Theories of Orality, Literacy, and Media, Gender Studies, World Literature and Translation Studies. Associate Professor Director of M.F.A. Program Deborah Barker M.F.A., University of Arkansas Associate Professor Teaching Interests: Poetry and Ph.D., the Writing of Poetry, Non-fiction. Teaching Interests: Gender Theory and Criticism, 19th- and 20th- Ann Fisher-Wirth Century American Literature, Film. Professor Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School Robert Cummings Teaching Interests: 20th-Century American Literature, 20th-Century Associate Professor Poetry, Creative Writing (Poetry, also Director of the Center Creative Non-fiction), Ecocriticism, for Writing and Rhetoric Literature and Environment. Ph.D. English, University of Georgia Teaching Interests: Composition. Electronic Literacy, Network Rhetorics, and Humanities Computing, Pedagogy.

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Tom Franklin Gregory Heyworth Associate Professor Associate Professor M.F.A., University of Arkansas Ph.D. Princeton University Teaching Interests: Fiction Writing. Teaching Interests: Medieval Romance and the History of Culture, Renaissance Drama, Classical Influence, English Rhetoric and Adam Gussow Politics of the 14–16th-Centuries. Associate Professor Ph.D., Princeton University Steven Justice Teaching Interests: African-American Professor Literature, Southern Literature, Ph.D. Princeton University & Jazz Literary and Cultural Teaching Interests: Middle English, Studies, American Road Narratives. Religious Studies, Medieval Latin.

Jaime Harker Associate Professor Ivo Kamps Assistant Department Chair Professor Ph.D., Temple University Department Chair Teaching Interests: 20th-Century American Literature, with an Ph.D., Princeton University Emphasis on Book History, Gender, and Sexuality. Teaching Interests: Early Modern Additional Research Interests in Gay and Lesbian Literature, Shakespeare, Literary Studies, American Studies, the Pacific Rim. Theory, Film.

Derrick A. Harriell Ben W. McClelland Assistant Professor Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., Indiana University (Ottilie Milwaukee Schillig Chair in English Composition) Teaching Interests: Creative Teaching Interests: Applied Writing, Writing (Poetry), African-American American Modernist Fiction, Literature. Contemporary Non-fiction Literature, Writing. Mary Hayes Associate Professor Kathryn McKee Ph.D., University of Iowa Associate Professor Teaching Interests: Old and Middle Ph.D., University of North English Literature, the History of Carolina at Chapel Hill the Senses/Sound Theory and Magic Teaching Interests: United States and the Occult, History of the Literature, U.S. Southern Literature, English Language. Global South Studies, Film Studies, Writing by Women, Humor Studies. O UR FACULTY

Chris Offutt David Smith Associate Professor Writer in Residence M.F.A., University of Iowa Ph.D., Ohio University Teaching Interests: Fiction, Teaching Interests: Poetry, Non-fiction, Screenwriting. American Literature.

Karen Raber Daniel Stout Professor Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University San Diego Teaching Interests: Romantic Teaching Interests: Early Modern Literature, Victorian Literature, British Literature and Culture, the Novel. Early Modern Women Writers Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies, Horses and Annette Trefzer Horsemanship in Early Modern England/Europe, Animal Studies, Ecocriticism. Associate Professor Ph.D., Tulane University Teaching Interests: American Peter Reed Literature, Literary Theory, Associate Professor Global South Studies and Director of Graduate Studies Southern Literature, Minority Ph.D., Florida State University Literatures: Native American Literature and African-American Literature. Teaching Interests: Early American Literature, Early American and Transatlantic Theatre, Performance Studies, Critical Jay Watson Race Studies, Cultural Studies. Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies Gregory A. Schirmer Ph.D., Harvard University Professor Emeritus Teaching Interests: American Ph.D., Stanford University Literature, Southern Literature Teaching Interests: Irish Literature, and Culture, Faulkner. Translation, Modernism. Ethel Young-Minor Associate Professor of English Jason Solinger and African American Studies Assistant Professor Senior Fellow of the Lucky Day Residential College Director of Undergraduate Studies Ph.D., Bowling Green State University Ph.D., Brown University Teaching Interests: African-American Literature, Teaching Interests: Literature of the Drama, Harlem Renaissance, American Literature. 18th-Century and Restoration.

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