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Department of English 2024 Awards and Scholarships Winners
English Department Award Winners! 2024 Award Winners: Drane Lester: Larina Anderson, Alton Bryant: Josiah Avery, Kennedy Beamon, and Israel Cummins Evans-Harrington: Noah Walters, Poetry “Appeal To Craft” | Locklyn Wilchynski, Poetry Runner-Up ” Crossed” | Sydney Stepp- Prose “Dragons Do Not Live Here” | Nathan Donohue- Prose Runner-Up “Stormchild” Ella Somerville: Catherine Carter- Poetry “Country […]
Tom Franklin is the University of Mississippi Humanities Teacher of 2024
Pulling Stories Out of the Air Celebrated Associate Professor of Fiction Writing Tom Franklin will present “Dead Towns of Alabama: Looking for Stories” at his University of Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year lecture. Sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and UM’s College of Liberal Arts, the free public event […]
Southern Literary Festival to be Hosted on Campus
Festival Schedule For more information on breakout sessions, visit the SLF website: Southern Literary Festival Thursday events will be held at or near Oxford University Depot. Friday and Saturday’s SLF events will all be on the 3rd Floor of the UM Student Union. Ongoing: Celebrating 85 Years of the Southern Literary Festival Archive Exhibit Second […]
UM English majors connect the dots between classroom and career
A Tale of Three Alumni UM English majors connect the dots between classroom and career OCTOBER 31, 2019 BY ABIGAIL MEISEL It is the best of times for English majors. They are entering a job market that values clear communication in writing and speaking, critical analysis, editing, and sensitivity in understanding differing perspectives—among a host […]
Edith Baine Lecture featuring Terrance Hayes, November 6 at 6 pm in Bondurant Auditorium
Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National BookCritics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; […]
Dr. Karen Raber recognized as UM Distinguished Professor
Three Faculty Members Named Distinguished Professors Trio recognized for research, teaching excellence and reputation MAY 10, 2019 BY SHEA STEWART FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailCopy LinkSMSPrintFriendlyShare UM Provost Noel Wilkin (left) congratulates Charles Hussey, associate dean for research and graduate education in the College of Liberal Arts and professor of chemistry and biochemistry, on being named a Distinguished Professor during the […]
College in Parchman: Imprisoned men study civil rights behind bars
OXFORD — “I’m a student! I’m a teacher! I’m a scholar! I am capable!” Since 2014, students in the Prison-to-College Pipeline Program have been affirming themselves at the start of each class as professors lead them in this chant. The PTCPP provides college-level courses to incarcerated men and women across the state of Mississippi. The program […]
2019 Creative Writing Award Winners Announced!
2019 Writing Award Winners! EVANS HARRINGTON CREATIVE WRITING SCHOLARSHIP Andrew J. Hill, fiction. $2,000 scholarship. Judge, Linda Masi Read Andrew’s submission “The Guard” HERE. ELLA SOMERVILLE CONTEST Dustin Wright, poetry. $200 prize. Judge, Michael Martella Read Dustin’s submission “The Flood” HERE. Blake Pratt, fiction. $200 prize. Judge, Sarah Huddleston Read Blake’s submission “Lap of the Gods” HERE. […]
English Ph.D. student, Allison Serraes, awarded ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
English Ph.D. student, Allison Serraes, awarded ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation, Carceral Matrix: Black Women’s Writing in Response to Mass Incarceration, 1963-2017. Click HERE for more information.