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Author Aimee Nezhukumatahil Set to Deliver Fall Convocation Keynote
August 12, 2021 By Edwin B. Smith Aimee Nezhukumatathil, University of Mississippi English professor and award-winning author, will deliver the keynote address to the university’s first-year/transfer class Aug. 24 during the annual Fall Convocation. The in-person event begins at 7 p.m. in the Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss. Others scheduled to […]
Lindsey Yates: From the Classroom to the Film Set
July 9, 2021 by Allison Clayton (BA ’21) Lindsey Yates (B.A. 2012) uses her degree in Journalism and her minor in English in spectacular ways—literally. Working at the Los Angeles branch of the visual effects company, FuseFX, Yates has a hand in creating effects for many popular television shows, like 9-1-1 and The […]
Professors Honored for Creative Research
JUNE 28, 2021 BY STAFF REPORT Six faculty members in the University of Mississippi College of Liberal Arts have been recognized for their creative, research and scholarly activity during the 2020-21 academic year. Four professors received the Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award for junior faculty and two received the College of Liberal Arts Award for […]
Seven UM International Studies Students Named Boren Scholars
April 22, 2021 by Edwin B. Smith For the second time in three years, seven accomplished students at the University of Mississippi have been named as recipients of the prestigious David L. Boren Scholarship from the National Security Exchange Program. All either are or have been enrolled in the university’s Croft Institute for International Studies. The recipients are Brantley Damon, of Madison; Miller […]
‘World of Wonders’ Chosen for 2021 Common Reading Experience
April 19, 2021 by Michael Newsom The University of Mississippi‘s 2021 Common Reading Experience will focus on “World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments,” a celebrated new collection of essays by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, UM professor of English and creative writing. After reviewing many community submissions and other finalists, a committee of faculty, staff and students […]
The 2021 Edith T. Baine Lecture featuring Mab Segrest, Monday, March 8th at 6:30 PM
Mab Segrest is professor emeritus of gender and women’s studies at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum, Memoir of a Race Traitor, Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice, and My Mama’s Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture. A […]
It is with great joy that we announce the 2020-2021 Grisham Writer-in-Residence: Maurice Ruffin!
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, which was published by One World Random House. The novel is a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress. His work […]
UM English professor receives National Endowment for the Humanities funding
Grant to Help Expand Environmental Studies Program UM English professor receives National Endowment for the Humanities funding APRIL 29, 2020 BY SHEA STEWART FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailCopy LinkSMSPrintFriendlyShare UM English professor Ann Fisher-Wirth will use a new National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to expand the university’s environmental studies minor program. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services OXFORD, […]
Dr. Aimee Nezhukumatathil Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
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