faculty info
Derrick A. Harriell
Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies and Director of MFA Program
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
Ivo Kamps
Department Chair and Professor
Ph.D., Princeton
Research and teaching interests include Early Modern literature, Shakespeare, Literary theory, Film.
Office: C128 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7439 | egkamps at olemiss.edu
Ethel Young-Scurlock
Associate Professor, Senior Fellow of the Lucky Day Residential College
Ph.D., Bowling Green
Teaching interests: African American literature
Office: W205B Bondurant | 662-915-7688 | eyoungmi at olemiss.edu
Peter Wirth
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Harvard
Office: W206 Bondurant | 662-915-5035 | phwirth at olemiss.edu
Jay Watson
Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English
Ph.D., Harvard University
Teaching interests: American literature, southern literature, Faulkner
Office: C211 Bondurant | 662-915-7671 | jwatson at olemiss.edu
Annette Trefzer
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Tulane University
Teaches American literature and literary theoryOffice: W211 Bondurant | 662-915-7675 | atrefzer at olemiss.edu
Beth Spencer
Lecturer in English
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 compositionOffice: 109 Leavell | ecspence at olemiss.edu
Jason Solinger
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown
Teaching and research interests: the literature of the long eighteenth century, the novel, gender and masculinity.Office: W207 Bondurant | solinger at go.olemiss.edu
Ronald A. Schroeder
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Teaches British Romanticism, the novel.
egras at olemiss.edu
Natalie Schroeder
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Teaches nineteenth-century British literature, contemporary fiction, the novel, and world literature.
nschroed at olemiss.edu