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2022 McCool Lecture in Faulkner Studies Featuring Speaker Sarah Stephens Loomis
We are please to announce the 2022 McCool Lecture in Faulkner Studies featuring speaker Sarah Stephens Loomis. Loomis will deliver her lecture, “Bland Treacherous Water: Thinking and Feeling Catastrophic Floods in Faulkner’s ‘Old Man'” on Monday, April 4th at 6:30 pm in Bondurant Auditorium on the University of Mississippi campus. Sarah Stephens Loomis, a PHD […]
Carolyn Forche Reading and Book Signing
A reading with Carolyn Forche with book signing to follow. In-person event to be held Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7pm at the Khayat Center on the University of Mississippi Oxford Campus. Carolyn Forche’s first volume, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poet’s Prize, was followed by The Country Between […]
Watch Now: The Howry Lecture in Faulkner Studies Recorded Event
The Inaugural Howry Lecture in Faulkner Studies was held on October 25, 2021. The inaugural Howry Lecturer is Professor Barbara Ladd of Emory University. Professor Ladd is an internationally recognized expert on the literature and culture of the American South, and Faulkner’s work has figured prominently in the two monographs she has published to date: Nationalism […]
Inaugural Howry Lecture in Faulkner Studies
The Inaugural Howry Lecture in Faulkner Studies Virtual Event held via zoom. To RSVP, please scan the zoom link in the poster. The inaugural Howry Lecturer is Professor Barbara Ladd of Emory University. Professor Ladd is an internationally recognized expert on the literature and culture of the American South, and Faulkner’s work has figured […]
Ralph Eubanks
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi, which will be released on March 16, 2021 by Timber Press. A Place Like Mississippitakes readers on a complete tour of the real and imagined landscapes that have inspired generations of authors. This is a book that honors and explores the landscape of Mississippi—and the […]
Julie Dhossche
An active science researcher, Julie’s work at the UM Medical Center on the effects of alcohol intake on brain receptor development was published in a medical journal. As a community volunteer active with the Spanish Club, she combined the two for a medical missionary trip to Bolivia. Julie’s honors thesis examining songs in the plays […]
Tametrice Eckols Strickland
Since graduation, Tametrice Strickland (BA ’95; MEd 2010 ) has worked in the field of K-12 education in Quitman County, as teacher, administrator, and director of the first Alternative Pathway to Excellence Program. Strickland earned her MA in curriculum and instruction from UM, participated in educational leadership programs, and earned an educational specialist degree from […]
Taylor Sledge
President of financial strategies firm Sledge and Company and recipient of business awards such as the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Top 4 Under 40, Taylor has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, and Mississippi Business Journal.. “Getting a liberal arts education at Ole Miss was awesome, especially in the English department. A […]
Leah Thomson
Leah Thomson comes from a family where service was a priority. The daughter of Mitzie Lindsey and Dr. Kenneth Lindsey of Fulton, Mississippi, her mother was an inspiring special education teacher for 36 years. Leah earned her BA in English from the University of Mississippi in 1984 and went on to obtain a paralegal degree […]
Robert Harper
Robert Harris Harper grew up in the small Mississippi Delta town of Indianola. An Eagle Scout, he grew up showing livestock in the 4-H club and competing in tennis and golf tournaments. He graduated from Mississippi Delta Junior College (now Mississippi Delta Community College) where he was inducted into the MDJC Hall of Fame and […]