Faculty
Adetayo Alabi
Professor
Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan
Teaching and research interests are Postcolonial studies with an emphasis on African, African-American and Caribbean literature and culture, Literary theory, and Autobiographical genre in Comparative Black Studies.
Office: C216 Bondurant Hall | aalabi at olemiss.edu
Patrick Alexander
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
Ph.D. Duke University
Teaching and research interests are African American literature, 19th-century American literature, and Critical Prison Studies.
Office: 201 Longstreet | pealexan at olemiss.edu
Sarah Baechle
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Teaching and research interests are Middle English and Old and Middle French languages and literatures; Medieval manuscript and print culture as well as Medieval authorship theories and literary criticism.
Office: W212 Bondurant Hall | sebaechl at olemiss.edu
Monika R. Bhagat-Kennedy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Teaching and research interests are Postcolonial and Transnational Literatures; Postcolonial Studies with a focus on South Asia; Nineteenth-century British Imperial Literature and Philosophies of Empire, Theory of the Novel.
Office: W213 Bondurant Hall | mbk at olemiss.edu
Matt Bondurant
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Creative Writing Programs
Ph.D., Florida State University
Teaching interests include Fiction Writing, Contemporary Literature, American Romanticism, 20th Century American Literature, The Novel, Postmodernism, Documentary Films
Office: W205A Bondurant Hall | mrbondur at olemiss.edu
William Boyle
Adjunct Instructor of English and Writing
M.F.A., Creative Writing, The University of Mississippi
Teaching interests include Fiction Writing
Office: 3rd Floor Lamar Hall, Suite B | wmboyle at olemiss.edu
Andrew Donnelly
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Southern Studies
Ph.D., Harvard University
B.A., Boston College
19th Century American Literature, history of sexuality.
Office: W212 Bondurant Hall | adonnel1 at olemiss.edu
Leigh Anne Duck
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Modern and contemporary literature and visual culture, constructions of race and nation, and theories concerning space, narrative, memory, and neoliberalism. Her current project considers how twenty-first century representations of the U.S. South provide a venue for contemplating the past and future of the larger nation.
Office: C217 Bondurant Hall | lduck at olemiss.edu
Tim Earley
Online Instructor
M.F.A., The University of Alabama
Teaches online courses in creative writing, early British literature, Appalachian literature, and fantasy literature. He is the author of five collections of poetry and also writes for the tabletop roleplaying game industry.
Cristin Ellis
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Teaching Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, American Romanticism, history of science, posthumanism, and ecocriticism.
Office: W209A Bondurant Hall | ceellis2 at olemiss.edu
Beth Ann Fennelly
Distinguished Professor
M.F.A., University of Arkansas
Teaches poetry as literature and also teaches the writing of both poetry and creative nonfiction. She’s the author of three books of poetry, one book of essays, and a co-authored novel.
Office: C104 Bondurant Hall | bafennel at olemiss.edu
Tom Franklin
Associate Professor
M.F.A., University of Arkansas
Teaches graduate fiction seminars and workshops.
Office: W104 Bondurant Hall | tfrankli at olemiss.edu
Ari Friedlander
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Teaching and research interests are Early Modern English Literature and Culture; Histories of Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status; Queer Theory; Queer Historiography; Disability Studies.
Office: C132 Bondurant Hall | ari at olemiss.edu
Melissa Ginsburg
Associate Professor
M.F.A., University of Iowa
Teaches Creative Writing courses in poetry and fiction as well as poetry and American literature courses
Office: C218 Bondurant Hall | mginsburg at olemiss.edu
Adam Gussow
Professor of English and Southern Studies
Ph.D., Princeton
Teaches and writes about American and African American Literature, with a particular focus on blues cultural studies.
Office: C213 Bondurant Hall | agussow at olemiss.edu
Jaime Harker
Professor
Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
Ph.D., Temple University
Works on twentieth century American literature, with an emphasis on book history, gender, and sexuality. She has additional research interests in gay and lesbian studies, American studies, and the Pacific Rim.
Office: C214A Bondurant Hall | jlharker at olemiss.edu
Derrick A. Harriell
Otillie Schillig Associate Professor of English
Director of African American Studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Teaching Interest: Blues Poetry, 20th Century Poetry, Harlem Renaissance Literature and Poetry
Office: C130 Bondurant Hall | harriell at olemiss.edu
Mary Hayes
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Teaches and researches Old and Middle English literature and the History of the English Language
Office: W203 Bondurant Hall | hayes at olemiss.edu
Max Hipp
Online Instructor
M.F.A., The University of Mississippi
Teaches online courses in beginning fiction, American literature, women in literature, and Mississippi literature.
Blair Hobbs
Senior Lecturer
M.F.A., University of Michigan
Teaches American Literature, Advanced Composition, Freshman Composition, Applied Writing, and Poetry workshops.
Office: 106 Leavell | vhobbs at olemiss.edu
Shari Hodges Holt
Instructional Associate Professor, Regional Campuses
Ph.D., University of Mississippi
Teaches courses in British literature, drama, and film studies. Her research interests include film adaptations of literature, Victorian Gothic and sensation fiction, and the works of Charles Dickens.
Office: Rm 332, Desoto Campus, Southaven | 662-393-1658 | shodges at olemiss.edu
Deanna Kreisel
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Teaching and research interests include Victorian literature and culture; ecocriticism; feminist, gender, and queer theory; and utopian studies..
Office: C136 Bondurant Hall | dkk at olemiss.edu
Kate Lechler
Online Lecturer
Ph.D. Florida State University
Teaches British literature, women in literature, early modern drama, Shakespeare in film, and science-fiction/fantasy. Has published poetry and short fiction and is currently working on a second novel, a post-apocalyptic far-future take on Moby Dick.
Office: 103 Leavell Hall | kalechle at olemiss.edu
Jennie Lightweis-Goff
Lecturer, Regional Campuses
Ph.D., University of Rochester
American and Southern Literatures as well as feminist theory and urban studies. She is currently working on book-length projects on slave narratives from the urban South and on representations of Southern cities in popular literature.
Scott R. MacKenzie
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University
Teaching and research interests are literature of the long eighteenth century, particularly prose fiction, aesthetics, and political debate on economic matters.
Office: W205B Bondurant Hall | smack at olemiss.edu
Kathryn McKee
McMullen Professor of Southern Studies and of English
Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Teaches and writes about United States literature and U.S. southern literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has particular interests in women’s writing, humor studies, film studies, and Global South studies.
Office: 216 Barnard Observatory | kmckee at olemiss.edu
Alida Moore
Lecturer, Regional Campuses
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Professor
M.F.A., The Ohio State University
Teaching interest are undergraduate and graduate poetry workshops, nature writing, environmental literature, and creative non-fiction workshops.
Office: W111 Bondurant Hall | acnezhuk at olemiss.edu
Dustin Parsons
Senior Lecturer
Director of the B.F.A. in Creative Writing
M.F.A. Bowling Green University, 2001
Teaching and research interests: Contemporary short story, creative nonfiction, 20th century American literature, popular culture studies.
Office: W210 Bondurant Hall | djparson at olemiss.edu
Richard Purcell
Herbert H. McAlexander Chair in English, Associate Professor
Ph. D. University of Pittsburgh
Teaching and research interests: American Literature and Film after 1945, Media Studies, Sound Studies, Black Studies and Black Cultural Production
Office: C 134 Bondurant Hall | repurcel at olemiss.edu
Karen Raber
Distinguished Professor
Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Writes and teaches early modern British literature. Her research interests include cultural and gender studies, animal studies, and ecocriticism.
Office: W209B Bondurant Hall | kraber at olemiss.edu
Justin Raden
Instructor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Teaching and research interests include Media Theory; Critical Theory; Late-19th and 20th century Anglophone literature
Office: W208 Bondurant Hall | engl at olemiss.edu
Peter Reed
Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Teaches Early American Literature.
Office: C133 Bondurant | preed at olemiss.edu
Jason Solinger
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Brown
Teaching and research interests: the literature of the long eighteenth century, the novel, gender and masculinity.
Office: C121 Bondurant | solinger at go.olemiss.edu
Beth Spencer
Senior Lecturer
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Teaching interests include creative writing, especially poetry, environmental studies, nature writing, Southern literature, intersections of social justice and service learning, international learning communities, multicultural literature and composition
Office: 109 Leavell | ecspence at olemiss.edu
Daniel Stout
Associate Professor
Associate Department Chair
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Teaching and research interests are Nineteenth Century British Literature, History of the Novel and contemporary theory.
Office: C214B Bondurant Hall | dstout at olemiss.edu
Sheila Sundar
Assistant Professor
M.F.A., Boston University
M.A., Teacher’s College, Columbia University
Teaches courses in fiction and creative nonfiction writing, as well as contemporary American literature with an emphasis on immigrant narratives.
Office: W207 Bondurant Hall | smsundar at olemiss.edu
Annette Trefzer
Professor
Ph.D., Tulane University
Teaches American literature and literary theory
Office: W211 Bondurant | 662-915-7675 | atrefzer at olemiss.edu
Michael Wang
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Teaching and Writing Interests: Teaches graduate and undergraduate fiction workshops and seminars, with special interest in speculative fiction, Asian American literature, contemporary short story, and genre writing.
Office: C213 Bondurant | mxwang at olemiss.edu
Jay Watson
Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Professor of English
Ph.D., Harvard University
Teaching interests: American literature, southern literature, Faulkner
Office: C211 Bondurant | jwatson at olemiss.edu
Caroline Wigginton
Chair and Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Teaching and research interests are American Literature to 1865, Native American Literatures, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Transatlantic Eighteenth Century.
Office: C128 Bondurant Hall | cwiggint at olemiss.edu
Ethel Young-Scurlock
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
Dean of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
Ph.D., Bowling Green
Teaching interests: African American literature
Office: W205B Bondurant | eyoungmi at olemiss.edu