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Department of English
University of Mississippi

faculty info

Leigh Anne Duck

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Modern and contemporary literature and visual culture, constructions of race and nation, and theories concerning space, narrative, memory, and neoliberalism. Her current project considers how twenty-first century representations of the U.S. South provide a venue for contemplating the past and future of the larger nation.
Office: C217 Bondurant Hall |lduck at olemiss.edu

Robert Cummings

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Georgia
Directs the Department for Writing and Rhetoric and teaches composition, composition pedagogy, and courses exploring rhetoric and technology. Recent projects include a Fulbright Specialist Award to support teaching with Wikipedia at University of Sydney and "FUD: The Rhetoric of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt." Book length publications are Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia (Vanderbilt 2009) and Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom (Michigan 2008).
Office: Lamar B14 | 662-915-1989 | cummings at olemiss.edu

Deborah Barker

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Princeton
Deborah Barker teaches American literature (with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century women writers), film studies (with an emphasis on southern film), and gender theory. She is the author of Reconstructing Violence: The Southern Rape Complex in Film and Literature (2015) and Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature: Portraits of the Woman Artist (2000). She co-edited with Kathryn McKee American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (2011). Barker has also published essays on southern film and literature and is currently working on a collection of essays on southern noir..
Office: C219 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7758 | dbarker at olemiss.edu

Adetayo Alabi

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan
Teaching and research interests are Postcolonial studies with an emphasis on African, African-American and Caribbean literature and culture, Literary theory, and Autobiographical genre in Comparative Black Studies.
Office: C216 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6948 |aalabi at olemiss.edu

Jack Barbera

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research and teaching interests include Twentieth-Century Poetry, Twentieth-Century Drama, Film, Literature and Art.