The University of Mississippi EnglishDEPARTMENT OF M.A. AND PH.D . D EGREE IN E NGLISH 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. ENGLISH.OLEMISS.EDU | LIBARTS.OLEMISS.EDU S TUDENT TESTIMONIALS “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 0IP '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.” 3COTT 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 $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.” #HARLES -OCK -! $OCTORAL CANDIDATE AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF )LLINOIS ENGLISH.OLEMISS.EDU | LIBARTS.OLEMISS.EDU N OTABLE EVENTS 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 Harlem 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,