faculty info

Gregory Alan Schirmer

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford
Teaches Irish literature and British twentieth-century literature.
eggas at olemiss.edu

Peter Reed

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Teaches Early American Literature.
Office: C133 Bondurant | preed at olemiss.edu

Professor of English
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

Chris Offutt

Associate Professor of English and Screenwriting
M.F.A., Fiction. The University of Iowa
Teaching interests: screenwriting, fiction, film
Office: C130 Bondurant | offutt at olemiss.edu

Kathryn McKee

Associate Professor of English
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 | 662-915-3371 | kmckee at olemiss.edu

Ben McClelland

Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Teaches courses in contemporary nonfiction literature and writing, advanced writing, and in American modernist fiction. His current research and writing projects include a collection of nonfiction stories about families that use diabetic alert dogs to help manage Type 1 Diabetes.
Office: W210 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5500 | wgbwm at olemiss.edu

Colby Kullman

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Studies, American Drama, Tennessee Williams
egcolby at olemiss.edu

Donald Kartiganer

Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies Emeritus
Ph.D., Brown

Email: dkartiga at olemiss.edu

Shari Hodges Holt

Instructional Associate Professor of English
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

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