faculty info
Deanna Kreisel
Deanna Kreisel specializes in Victorian literature and culture; ecocriticism; feminist, gender, and queer theory; and utopian studies. She is the author of Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and has published essays in PMLA, ELH, Representations, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a monograph on utopia and sustainability […]
Scott R. MacKenzie
Scott R. MacKenzie works on literature of the long eighteenth century, particularly prose fiction, aesthetics, and political debate on economic matters. His book, Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home (U of Virginia Press, 2013), won the Walker Cowen Prize for a study on an eighteenth-century topic. It argues that […]
Paula W. White
Instructor, Branch Campuses
Ph.D., University of Arkansas
Teaching and research interests are African American Literature, Southern Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
pwwhite@olemiss.edu
Ralph Eubanks
Visiting Professor
Ralph Eubanks is the author of The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South (HarperCollins, 2009) and Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past (Basic Books, 2003)
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|
Melissa Ginsburg
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
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
Jennie Lightweis-Goff
Instructor, Branch 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
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Professor of English and Creative Writing
M.F.A., Ohio State University
Office: W111 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6510 | acnezhuk 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
Kiese Laymon
Professor of English and Creative Writing
M.F.A., Indiana University
Office: W205A Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6949 | kmlaymon at olemiss.edu