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UM’s very own Beth Ann Fennelly chosen as new poet laureate for Mississippi
Three volumes of poems, two books of essays, and a book co-authored with her husband has led to Beth Ann Fennelly being named Mississippi’s Poet Laureate. Fennelly’s selection was announced Wednesday by Malcolm White, executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission, at the Rotunda of the Capitol Building. She was chosen from among three finalists […]
Matthew Brown, Associate Professor of English and the University of Iowa Center for the Book, will be giving the keynote for the “Early American Materialities” symposium on Thursday, May 5 in Bondurant Auditorium
The symposium, sponsored by the Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and the Department of English, culminates the hard work of my graduate students this semester. They will be giving conference length versions of their final projects (critical and creative) from noon to 4:30 in the Hannah-Ford Room of Bondurant Hall. While […]
English Education major, Heather Williams, elected Associated Student Representative for the southern region of Sigma Tau Delta
This March Heather Williams, a senior English Education major at the University of Mississippi, attended the national conference of the English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, where she was elected Associated Student Representative for the Southern Region. Heather currently serves as the Vice President of her chapter, Eta Nu, and will become President in May […]
Winners of 2016 Creative Writing Awards Announced!
Evans Harrington Scholarship: Victoria Collins Ella Somerville Award for Poetry: Devin Kerr Pitts Ella Somerville Award for Fiction: Charles McCrory Bondurant Prize for Poetry: Shertock Lama Bondurant Prize for Fiction: David Tran Congratulations to our winners!
The Forty-Fourth James Edwin Savage Lecture in the Renaissance: “Demonic Possession and the Theater in Early Modern England” by Brian Levack. April 12th at 6p.m. Bondurant Auditorium
Brian Levack grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. From his father, a professor of French history, he acquired a love for studying the past, and he knew from an early age that he too would become a historian. He received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1965 and […]
First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare. April 11, 2016 Ford Center for the Performing Arts 6:30 p.m. Opening Remarks 7:00 p.m. The History of Shakespeare’s Text
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Workers Discover Smokestack and Railwork Where William Faulkner Composed *As I Lay Dying*
On Tuesday, March 22, workers at the University of Mississippi excavated the brick foundation for the smokestack structure originally located just to the west of the 1908 power plant building where William Faulkner composed As I Lay Dying in the fall of 1929. The brickwork was discovered upon removal of a concrete pad that had in recent […]
Check out Derrick Harriell’s article “Chicago State State of Mind” in Los Angeles Review of Books.
Derrick Harriell was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He’s worked as assistant poetry editor for Third World Press and The Cream City Review and has taught community writing workshops for individuals of all ages, including senior citizens. A two-time Pushcart Nominee, Harriell’s poems have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. Cotton (Aquarius Press-Willow Books 2010) is his […]
