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Department of English
University of Mississippi

Author Archive

Virginia Kinnier (BA ’11)

Helping Women Find Their Side Hustle! August 17, 2020 by Lydia Lagard (BA ’20) In this life, sometimes you need a “side hustle.” To Virginia Kinnier (BA 2011), that catch phrase has come to mean a lot more than a supplemental income. As she talks about a Side Hustle, the name she gave to the […]

Winston Collier

Meet Winston Collier (B.A. 2003): Owner and Founder of the Collier Firm August 1, 2020 by Leighton Griffin (BA ‘20) During the spring semester of 2020, shortly after the university went online, I had the opportunity to have a virtual meeting with Winston Collier (B.A. 2003), an attorney and healthcare policy consultant. Collier reflects fondly […]

Andie Ferniany

she/her/hers M.A., University of Alabama in Huntsville B.A., Auburn University Areas of Interest: Research interests include Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture, historical poetics, feminist criticism, gender studies, and ecocriticism

Ira Sen

she/her/hers Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research, Ashoka University B.A., Hons., English, Ashoka University Areas of Interest: Adaptation, Shakespeare, the body in performance, reading and re-imagining, creative political resistance to authoritarianism

Loren Samons

she/her/hers B.A., English, University of Central Arkansas Areas of Interest: Teaching and research interests include poetry and poetics, war literature, Southern literature, Romanticism, 20th century film and film theory.

Nicholas Sabo

he/his/him Areas of Interest: sound, radio, and media studies, aesthetic philosophy, Gothic literature, 20th century popular media, and contemporary formats B.A., English and Computer Science, Rice University, 2018  

Kara Russell

she/her/hers M.A., English, TESOL certificate, East Tennessee State University, 2018 B.A., English and French & Francophone Studies, Earlham College, 2013 Areas of Interest: Lesbian feminist literature, modernism, southern literature

Margaret Pless

she/her/hers Areas of Interest: 20th century and contemporary American literature, the memoir, theory of identity, criticism that incorporates the personal M.A., University of Mississippi B.A., Vanderbilt University

Kacee McKinney

she/her/hers Areas of Interest: In my current graduate research, I am interested in posthumanist theory, ecocriticism, and literature from the American and Global South M.A., Literature and Cultural Theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee B.A., English, Oklahoma Baptist University https://kaceemckinney.wordpress.com/

Kimberly Kotel

she/her/hers Areas of Interest: Research interests include 19th-21st century literature; aesthetics; cultural studies; genre; material culture; media studies; pedagogy; poetics; sexuality and gender; spatial theory.     M.F.A., Creative Writing, Chapman University M.A., English, Chapman University B.A., Creative Writing, University of Arizona