PhD Students
Juyoun (Juyeon) Jang
Juyoun (Juyeon) Jang M.A., American Studies, Sogang University in Seoul, S. Korea B.A., Korean Literature and Philosophy, Sogang University in Seoul, S. Korea Main interests: African American Literature; Critical Prison Studies, Black Feminism; Transnational Black Studies; the Global South; Cinema Studies
Amber P. Hodge
Amber P. Hodge they/them/theirs M.A., English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington A.M., American Studies, College of William and Mary A.B., English, College of William and Mary adaptation, American literature and culture since WWI, animal studies, the Anthropocene, class, disability studies, gender, Hawai‘i and the Global South, memory, queer theory, southern gothic, trauma www.amberhodge.org
Sarah Heying
Sarah Heying she/her/hers and they/them/theirs M.A., English, McNeese State University M.F.A., Creative Writing—Fiction, McNeese State University B.A., Cultural Studies with a minor in Creative Writing, UNC-Chapel Hill Queer and trans aesthetics in southern literature; theories of memory, identity, and embodiment; critical race theory; hybrid genres
Josh-Wade Ferguson
Josh-Wade Ferguson M.A., University of Saskatchewan B.A., University of Saskatchewan African American literature; Blues literature and culture; US Southern literature; multiethnic literature; and transnational studies
Kathleen Downes
Kathleen Downes M.A., University of New Orleans B.A., Florida State University Research interests are science and literature with a focus on disease in 19th Century and Modern American literature
Rachel Cason
Rachel Cason M.A., English Literature, Georgia Southern University B.A., English Literature, Georgia Southern University Nineteenth Century British Literature and the Novel
Ryan Charlton
Ryan Charlton M.A., English, Auburn University, 2012 B.S., English, Troy University, 2010 Research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture, the Arctic, environmental humanities, Reconstruction, African American literature http://olemiss.academia.edu/RyanCharlton
Cullen Brown
Cullen Brown B.A., English, University of Cincinnati Theories of reading, epistemology, and conceptions of humanness in the early Americas https://olemiss.academia.edu/CBrown
Mellissa Black
Mellissa Black M.A., University of Alabama in Huntsville B.S., Computer Science, Limestone College Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Economics, Gender and Sexuality, Property and Consent, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies
Jacob Agner
Jacob Agner M.A., Bucknell University B.A., James Madison University 20th century American literature and film, Rural studies and new modernist studies, Southern film and literature, Noir studies https://olemiss.academia.edu/JacobAgner