Author Archive
English Ph.D. student, Allison Serraes, awarded ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
English Ph.D. student, Allison Serraes, awarded ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation, Carceral Matrix: Black Women’s Writing in Response to Mass Incarceration, 1963-2017. Click HERE for more information.
It is with great joy that we announce the 2019-2020 Grisham Writer-in-Residence: January O’Neil!
January Gill O’Neil is the author of Rewilding (fall 2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), published by CavanKerry Press. She is an assistant professor of English at Salem State University, and boards of trustees member with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and Montserrat College of Art. From 2012-2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts […]
SEC Selects UM English Professor Dr. Karen Raber as a 2019 Faculty Achievement Award Recipient
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Understanding Randall Kenan on April 11th at 4 p.m. Peabody 206
The event will begin with Kenan reading from his work and will be followed by an interview by James A. Crank, author of Understanding Randall Kenan. Signing to follow. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Randall Kenan is best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and his collection of […]
The Forty-Seventh James Edwin Savage Lecture in the Renaissance: “Shakespeare and Un-Freedom” by Ayanna Thompson. April 4th at 6:30 p.m. Bondurant Auditorium
Ayanna Thompson is Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University. She is the author of Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (Arden Bloomsbury, 2018), Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centered Approach (Arden Bloomsbury, 2016), Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Performing Race and Torture on the Early […]
Life After Graduation with Ole Miss English Alumni
UM English alumni from 15 different career and industry sectors share professional stories and career advice. Undergraduates can meet one-on-one and ask specific questions during the speed-network segment. Click HERE for more information.
English Ph.D. Student Sarah Heying Earns Competitive Summer Fellowship
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Regina Young
she/her/hers B.A., University of Kentucky Areas of Interest: Teaching and research interests include 20th-century American literature, medical humanities, disability studies, southern literature, gender and sexuality studies, literary modernism, and ecocriticism.
Laura Wilson
Laura Wilson M.A., English Literary Studies, University of Exeter B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Oxford William Faulkner and the American South; sexuality and gender; censorship and obscenity; environmentalism; Lost Generation and expatriate Modernism; material culture; Foucault and post-structuralism