PhD Students

Katie Turner
Katie Turner M.A., Delta State University B.A., Delta State University Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, visual and literary representations of the U.S. South, cultural geography, and critical disaster studies

Kristin Teston
Kristin Teston M.A., University of Southern Mississippi B.A., University of Southern Mississippi Research Interests: twentieth- and twenty-first century U.S. literature and culture; literary and visual representation of ruins; environmental humanities; critical disaster studies http://olemiss.academia.edu/KristinTeston

Sara Stephens
Sara Stephens M.F.A., Creative Writing, Georgia College & State University B.A., Writing, University of Evansville Southern literature, Victorian poetry, American modernism
Seth Spencer
Seth Spencer he/him/his M.A., English, University of South Florida B.A., English, Florida Southern College Areas of Interest: Seth Spencer is a Ph.D. student at the University of Mississippi specializing in 19th-Century American Literature. He studies print culture, assembled texts, and labor reform literature.

Allison Serraes
Allison Serraes B.A., English, Florida Gulf Coast University M.A., English, Florida Gulf Coast University Twentieth-century American literature, with an emphasis on African American literature, critical prison studies, and theater studies

William C. Palmer
William C. Palmer he/him/his M.A., English, Auburn University B.A., English, Birmingham-Southern College Areas of Interest: American literature and culture, Modernism/modernity, Race, African American Literature, Popular Music, Sound Studies

Naza Amaeze Okoli
Naza Amaeze Okoli he/him/his M.A., University of Lagos, Nigeria B.A., University of Lagos, Nigeria Areas of Interest: Black vernacular traditions; print culture; race and performance in the Black Atlantic; African/African American literature

Allison Nick
Allison Nick B.A., Washington University in St. Louis 20th Century American Literature, Southern Literature, Postwar Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Women and Gender Studies

Bailey Moorhead
she/her/hers B.A., Oklahoma State University Areas of Interest: Research interests include 20th Century American literature and film, with emphasis on south/western fiction, modernism, historical materialism, critical race theory, and gender studies.