faculty info
Matt Bondurant
Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Fiction
Ph.D., Florida State University
Teaching interests include Fiction Writing, Contemporary Literature, American Romanticism, 20th Century American Literature, The Novel, Postmodernism, Documentary Films
Office: W208 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6947 | mrbondur 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 | 662-915-7674 | ari at olemiss.edu
Jaime Cantrell
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Teaching and research interests: Women’s and Gender Studies with special emphases in queer theory and LGBTQ studies and literatures; twentieth century American Lit; archival studies; southern sexuality studies; food studies of the U.S. South.
Office: W212 Bondurant Hall | jaimec at olemiss.edu
Daniel A. Novak
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Teaching and research interests are Victorian Literature and Culture, 19th century Literature and Visual Culture, Photography and Film, Nineteenth-Century Theories of Race, The History of Sexuality, Oscar Wilde
Office: C121 Bondurant Hall | dnovak at olemiss.edu
Erin Drew
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Teaching and research interests are Eighteenth-century poetry and the novel, Ecocriticism, Science and literature, and Jane Austen and pop culture.
Office: W107-B Bondurant Hall | 662-915-2783 | eedrew at olemiss.edu
Ian Whittington
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., McGill University
Teaching and research interests: 20th century British literature, 20th century World Anglophone literature, Cultural Studies, Radio Studies/Sound Studies.
Office: C220 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7670 | iwhittin at olemiss.edu
Caroline Wigginton
Assistant 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: C134 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7106 | cwiggint at olemiss.edu
Lindy Brady
Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Teaching and research interests are Old English, medieval Irish and Welsh, Old Norse, and Anglo-Latin languages and literatures; the role of the landscape in medieval texts.
Office: C136 Bondurant Hall | lmbrady at olemiss.edu
Patrick Alexander
Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
Ph.D. Duke University
Teaching Interests: African American literature, 19th-century American literature, and Critical Prison Studies.
Office: 315 Longstreet | pealexan at olemiss.edu
Daniel Stout
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
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