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Derrick Harriell, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
Derrick Harriell, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, and author of *Cotton* (Aquarius Press, 2010).
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Chiyuma Elliott, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
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
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Fantasy Fiction Students and Instructor Beth Spencer
UM Students enjoy a production of Wicked in London's West End during a spring break study abroad trip to the UK.
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M.F.A. Poets and Professor Ann Fisher-Wirth
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.
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Graduate Students
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.
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Adetayo Alabi, Associate Professor of English
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.
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Cristin Ellis, Assistant Professor of English
Elllis' current research focuses on American authors writing in the Romantic tradition. She teaches courses in 19th century American literature, ecocriticism, and film.
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Tom Franklin, Assistant Professor of Fiction Writing & Beth Ann Fennelly, Associate Professor
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger winner Franklin with UM 2011 Humanities Teacher of the Year Fennelly
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Chris Offutt, Assistant Professor of English
A prolific writer of novels, memoirs, and short stories, Offutt’s screenplays include HBO's True Blood and Showtime's Weeds.
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Ford, Offutt, Ginsburg, and Chancellor Jones
Richard Ford, Chris Offutt, Melissa Ginsburg and UM Chancellor Dan Jones
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Josh Weil, John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence 2011-2012
The award-winning writer is at work on a novel and teaching.
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Ethel Young-Minor, Associate Professor of English & Senior Fellow at the Lucky Day Residential College
Professor Ethel Young-Minor teaching class.
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Richard Ford, Professor of English and Senior Fiction Writer
Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer.
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Karen L. Raber, Professor of English
Dr. Raber writes and teaches early modern British literature. Her research interests include cultural and gender studies, animal studies, and ecocriticism.
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William Faulkner Photographed at Rowan Oak in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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.
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