Current Graduate Students
Muftiat Adeyi, she\her
M.A.,Performing Arts, University of Ilorin
B.A., Visual and Preforming Arts, Kwara State University
Research and writing interests include African and African Diasporic Literature, Performance Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Theatre and Film Studies, Black Feminism, and Oral Literature.
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, he\him
University of Ibadan
Research and writing interests include Poetry, African and African American Literature, World Literature, Historical Linguistics, Gender Studies, Art history.
Stacey Balkun
she/her/hers
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Fresno State University, 2014
B.A., English and American Studies, Rutgers University, 2009
Bridget Bartlett, she\they
BA in Philosophy, Central Washingtin University, Ellensburg WA
MA in English, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK
Research and writing interests include early modern literature, disability studies, neurodiversity, drama, jestbooks, disablement and racialization
Di Bei, she\her
B.S. Biology, Randolph College, VA
Research and writing interests include fiction and creative writing.
dbei@go.olemiss.edu
Ellie Black, she/her/hers
B.A., Hendrix College
Areas of Interest: Poetry, the South, queer and feminist literature, pop culture, film studies, and media and digital studies
ellieblack.com
ekblack@go.olemiss.edu
Gabrielle Bowden, she\her
B.A., College of William and Mary;
Masters of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin
Research and writing interests include: Southern literature, Gothic literature, modernism, Irish literature, Transatlantic literature, 20th century literature
Caroline Brandon, she/her/hers
M.A., Mississippi State University
B.A., Millsaps College
Research and writing interests include Contemporary American Literature, especially Mississippi writers
Colin Brightwell, he/him/his
B.A., English, University of Missouri – Kansas City
Research and writing interests include Crime Fiction, Grit Lit, Noir, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Folklore, 19th\20th Century American Literature, Irish Literature, Japanese Literature, the American Civil War, Music Journalism
crbright@go.olemiss.edu
Chase Browning, he/him/his
B.A., English and Philosophy, University of Virginia
Research and writing interests include Faulkner, African American literature, literature and philosophy
crbright@go.olemiss.edu
Christy Conor
Jacob DeBrock, he/they
B.A. in English and Psychology, University of Toledo.
M.A. English, University of Louisville
Research interests include 20th- and 21st-century African American literature, queer/gender studies, disability studies, media studies
Kathleen Downes, she\her
M.A., University of New Orleans
B.A., Florida State University
Research and writing interests include science and literature with a focus on disease in 19th Century and Modern American literature
Shannon Dwyer
Kenneth Estrada
Siyun Fang
Aly Favilla, they\them
B.Sc. in Environmental Science from Cornell University
M.Phil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin
Research and writing interests include The sonnet, New Formalism, 20th century Irish poetry, Northern Irish writing, birds in art and literature
Callie Fedd
Andie Ferniany she/her/hers
M.A., University of Alabama in Huntsville
B.A., Auburn University
Areas of Interest: Research interests include Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture, historical poetics, feminist criticism, gender studies, and ecocriticism.
Diego Fleitas, he\him
Research interests include: renaissance narrative poems, italian humanism, chivalric epic, the sonnet tradition, early modern prose fiction
Kelsey Fox she/her/hers
B.A. English and Spanish, Brescia University
M.A. English, Western Kentucky University
Areas of Interest: Research interests include Contemporary American Literature, Critical Prison Studies, Queer Theory, Ecocriticism.
David James Gambino he/him/his
M.A., English, University of Alabama in Huntsville
B.A., English, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Areas of Interest: Interests include contemporary literary fiction, creative nonfiction, food writing, and writing by military veterans.
Anthony Gottlich he/him/his
B.A., English and Hispanic Languages and Literature, Boston University
Areas of Interest: Research interests include Literature of the US South, the Global South, Latin American Literature, Indigenous Literature, Postcolonialism, and other literary depictions of the plantation.
Maggie Graber she/her/hers
M.F.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale
B.A., Indiana University
Research interests include Contemporary American Poetry, Ecocriticism, Queer Ecologies, and Wilderness Poetics.
Marina Greenfeld,
B.A., UNC Chapel Hill, English and Slavic Languages and Cultures
Areas of Interest: Interests include poetry, southern literature and cultures, docupoetics and poetics of labor, folklore, Jewish studies, Slavic studies, linguistics, theatre and performance, puppets
Vinh Hoang he/him
B.A., Creative Writing, University of Houston
Areas of Interest: Contemporary American Fiction, Short story writing, Novel writing, Screenwriting, Filmmaking
Victoria Hulbert she/her/hers
B.A., Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College
Areas of Interest: Literary fiction, Popular Culture and Media Studies, Cyberfeminism, and Internet Studies
Conor Hultman, he\him
Bachelor’s in English with an Emphasis on Creative Writing, The University of Mississippi
Research and Writing interests include Literature, Faulkner
Amie Irwin
Janeth Jackson, she/her/hers
B.A., English, Tougaloo College (Jackson, MS)
M.A., Southern Studies, University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)Writing and research interests include African American Literature, Southern Literature, Young Adult Fiction, and Women’s Studies
Latrice Johnson she/her/hers
Areas of Interest: Research interests include American literature; African American literature; Blues literature and culture; and Afrofuturism
B.A. Tougaloo College
ljohnso7@go.olemiss.edu
Jenny Keto, she/her/hers
B.A., Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Nursing, Texas A&M University
Writing and research interests includePoetry (as a written, oral, and performative tradition), Psychiatry/Psychology, Mental Health Advocacy, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist Literature, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Theatre & Film Studies, Acting, Neurodiversity Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Studies, Social Justice, Modern Art & Design, Art History
Key, Jennifer
Rebeca Kis, she/her/hers
Bachelor’s in English (Honours), Mount Royal University
Areas of Interest: Research interests include 18th and 19th century British Literature
Kimberly Kotel she/her/hers
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Chapman University
M.A., English, Chapman University
B.A., Creative Writing, University of Arizona
Areas of Interest: Research interests include 19th-21st century literature; aesthetics; cultural studies; genre; material culture; media studies; pedagogy; poetics; sexuality and gender; spatial theory.
Marina Leigh she/her/hers
Grisham Scholar
B.A., The University of Nevada, Reno
Areas of Interest: Creative writing with an emphasis in poetry
mrleigh@go.olemiss.edu
Kacee McKinney she/her/hers
M.A., Literature and Cultural Theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
B.A., English, Oklahoma Baptist University
Areas of Interest: queer theory, animal studies, twentieth and twenty-first century southern literature,
www.kaceemckinney.wordpress.com
Morgan McComb she/her/hers
M.A., Literature and Cultural Theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
B.A., English, Oklahoma Baptist University
Research and writing interest include African American Literature, African American Poetry, Black Feminisms
Homa Mojtabai she/her/hers
BA Spanish, Bowdoin College.
MBA Management, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
writing and research interests include A War of the Words – I’m most interested in politically engaging, enraging, and especially entertaining, American fiction.
Jacob Montalvo-Santiago, he\him
B.A. in Creative Writing from Central Michigan University
Research interests include autobiographical Poetry
Maggie Muehleman, she\hers
B.A. from Transylvania University
Research interests include 19th and 20th century American Literature, the Southern Gothic, cultural studies, women in literature, literary theory, and social\cultural theory
Sayantani Mukherjee, she\hers
B.A( Hons.), University of Delhi, MA English, University of Delhi
Research interests include 18th century British literature
Gabriel Mundo he/him/his
B.A., English and Writing, Carroll University
Areas of Interest: poerty
Joanna Ng she/her/hers
M.A., English, University of California, Davis
B.A., English, University of California, Davis
Areas of Interest: Areas of interest include Asian American literature, environmental literature, fairy tales and folklore
Joshua Nguyen he/him/his
M.F.A., The University of Mississippi
B.S.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Areas of Interest: Asian American literature, hybrid historial retellings, and the contemporary quotidian.
Allison Nick She\Hers
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Research interests include 20th Century American Literature, Southern Literature, Postwar Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Women and Gender Studies
Noreen Ocampo, she\they
B.A., English, Emory University
Research and writing interests include poetry, Filipino/a/x American literature, Asian American literature, representations and explorations of Asian American family dynamics, reclamation and transformation of myth, film and media studies, screenwriting, the short film.
Oluwatobi (Tobi) Ogundiran, he\him\his
M.D. Penza State University
Research and writing interests include Mythology and Folklore, Creative Writing, Speculative Fiction, World Literature
Ugochukwu Damian Okpara he\him
B.Sc Anatomy, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University
Areas of Interest: Gender and Sexuality Studies
A. Ng Pavel they\them
Dual B.A./M.A University of Chicago, English and Creative Writing
Research and writing interests include Magic realism, migration literature, Asian American literature, African American literature, critical race studies, disability studies, queer and trans theory
Hannah Phillips she/her/hers
B.A.,
Areas of Interest: Research and teaching interests include Contemporary literature, Immigrant literature, Postcolonial theory, and Gender studies. B.A. in English from Mississippi State University.
Sarah Margaret Pittman, she\her\hers
B.S.B.A., Finance, University of Arkansas
Research interests include Victorian literature, gender studies, Gothic literature Political economy
Margaret Pless Zee she/her/hers
M.A., University of Mississippi
B.A., Vanderbilt University
Areas of Interest: 20th century and contemporary American literature, the memoir, theory of identity, criticism that incorporates the personal
Pontacoloni, Michael
Elizabeth Purnell she/her
B.A., English, Emory University
Research interests include: Early Modern British literature, theater, gender and sexuality, race studies.
Alida Pamela Reyes she/her/ella
B.A., History and English, Cedar Crest College, Allentown PA
Research and writing interests include: Pan-African Literature, Queer Theory, Afro-futurism, Woman and Gender studies
Ridley, Kimberly
Kara Russell she/her/ella
B.A., French, Earlham College
M.A., East Tennessee State University
Research interests include: Queer literatures, multispecies ecologies, modernity, lesbian print movement, and the US South
Nicholas Sabo he/him/his
B.A., English and Computer Science, Rice University, 2018
Areas of Interest: sound, radio, and media studies, aesthetic philosophy, Gothic literature, 20th century popular media, and contemporary formats.
Loren Samons she/her/hers
Areas of Interest: Teaching and research interests include poetry and poetics, war literature, Southern literature, Romanticism, 20th century film and film theory
B.A., English, University of Central Arkansas
lsamons@go.olemiss.edu
Ira Sen she/her/hers
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research, Ashoka University
B.A., Hons., English, Ashoka University
Areas of Interest: Adaptation, Shakespeare, the body in performance, reading and re-imagining, creative political resistance to authoritarianism.
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.
Nicholas Sumrall, he\him
Areas of Interest: Old English literature and folklore, Anglo-Latin literature, Epilepsy and disability in antiquity and the Middle Ages
B.A., Classics, University of Mississippi
jnsumral@go.olemiss.edu
Will Underland, he\him
B.S. Liberal Studies, MA in English, Middle Tennessee State University
Areas of Interest: American Literature, Ecocriticism, Psychoanalysis.
William Walker, he\him
B.A. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
M.F.A. The University of Central Florida
Areas of Interest: Teaching and research interests include fiction.
Williams, Charlie
Ibrahim Williams, he\him
B.A in English and Literary Studies at Kwara State University, Kwara
M.A in English at University of Lagos, Nigeria
Research and Writing interests include: Contemporary African/African-American Literature and Film, Literary Stylistics and Discourse, and Interdisciplinary studies
Young, Katie
Young, Regina