
“A William Faulkner Remembrance” July 6, 2012 Friday, July 6, 2012 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of William … [Read More...]

Robert N. Watson received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale in 1975 and his Ph.D. with Highest Honors from Stanford in 1979, then spent … [Read More...]

“Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter,” by Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin, has been selected for the 2012 Common Reading Experience … [Read More...]
Derrick Harriell, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, and author of *Cotton* (Aquarius Press, 2010).
Chiyuma Elliott, Professor of English and African American Studies, and Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the University of Texas. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
UM Students enjoy a production of Wicked in London's West End during a spring break study abroad trip to the UK.
To celebrate 100,000 Poets for Change, the MFA poets and Professor Ann Fisher-Wirth carried on a little infiltration of poetry into the day of the home football game against Georgia.
Eudora Welty Graduate Seminar Field Trip to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson, where many of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's letters, photos and archival materials are housed.
Postcolonial studies with an emphasis on African, African-American and Caribbean literature and culture, literary theory, and autobiographical genre in comparative black studies are teaching and research interests of Dr. Alabi.
Elllis' current research focuses on American authors writing in the Romantic tradition. She teaches courses in 19th century American literature, ecocriticism, and film.
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger winner Franklin with UM 2011 Humanities Teacher of the Year Fennelly
A prolific writer of novels, memoirs, and short stories, Offutt’s screenplays include HBO's True Blood and Showtime's Weeds.
Richard Ford, Chris Offutt, Melissa Ginsburg and UM Chancellor Dan Jones
The award-winning writer is at work on a novel and teaching.
Professor Ethel Young-Minor teaching class.
Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer.
Dr. Raber writes and teaches early modern British literature. Her research interests include cultural and gender studies, animal studies, and ecocriticism.
The 39th Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference: Fifty Years After Faulkner is July 7-11, 2012. A commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize winning author's death will be held July 6.
Joan Wylie Hall
Richard Ford
Beth Ann Fennelly
Robert E. Cummings
Deborah Barker
Jack Barbera
Benjamin F. Fisher
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Adam Gussow
Jaime Harker
Mary Hayes
Gregory Heyworth
Colby Kullman
Ben McClelland
Jack Pendarvis
Ivo Kamps, Karen Raber, Thomas Hallock
Peter Reed
Gregory Alan Schirmer
Ronald A. Schroeder
Ethel Young-Minor
Jason Solinger
Gary Short
Josh Weil
Jay Watson
Annette Trefzer
Kathryn McKee
Chris Offutt
Natalie Schroeder
Tom Franklin
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