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Maurice Ruffin, 2020-2021 John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence and author of We Cast a Shadow (One World Random House).


Learn about becoming an English major at the University of Mississippi.

Kathryn McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English, holds her honors English class in the Grove.


Professors Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelley
photo by Andy Anderson
photo by Andy Anderson

Professor Derrick Harriell discusses his book, Ropes, at a Brown Bag lecture.
photo by Robert Jordan
photo by Robert Jordan

Professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic (2018), her fourth collection of poetry.










Professor Karen Raber, who specializes in Renaissance literature with an emphasis on ecostudies, animal studies, and posthumanist theory, is executive director of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Professor Ethel Young-Scurlock is Senior Fellow of the Lucky Day Residential College.

Jay Watson,
Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English, teaching in Bondurant Hall auditorium.