PhD in English Students
M.F.A., The University of Mississippi
B.A., Union College
Teaches Creative Writing, Writing 101 and American Literature
Interests include African American and Caribbean literatures; diasporic women’s writing; ecocriticism.
Stacey Balkun
she/her/hers
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Fresno State University, 2014
B.A., English and American Studies, Rutgers University, 2009
Areas of Interest: Research interests include 20th & 21st century & poetry, particularly texts by women writers, fairy tales & mythology, fabulism, eco-poetry, & environmental criticism.
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M.A., University of Oklahoma
B.A., Central Washington University
Areas of Interest: Research interests include early modern literature and disability studies.
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
Caroline Brandon
she/her/hers
M.A., Mississippi State University
B.A., Millsaps College
Areas of Interest: Contemporary American Literature, especially Mississippi writers
B.A., English, University of Cincinnati
Research interests include theories of reading, epistemology, and conceptions of humanness in the early Americas
Jacob DeBrock
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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
M.A., University of New Orleans
B.A., Florida State University
Research interests include science and literature with a focus on disease in 19th Century and Modern American literature
Diego Fleitas
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B.A. Eckerd College
M.A. Dartmouth College
Areas of Interest: The epic, Arthurian Legend, Chivalric Romances.
Andie Ferniany
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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.
Kelsey Fox
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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.
Anthony Gottlich
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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
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M.F.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale
B.A., Indiana University
Research interests include Contemporary American Poetry, Ecocriticism, Queer Ecologies, and Wilderness Poetics.
Sarah Heying
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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
Research interests include queer and trans aesthetics in southern literature; theories of memory, identity, and embodiment; critical race theory; hybrid genres
Amber Hodge
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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
Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st century US literature and culture; animal studies; Asian American Studies; film and media studies; formation of ability, class, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality in the US; Hawai‘i
M.F.A., The University of Mississippi
M.A., English, Portland State University
B.A., English, Portland State University
Literary fiction; slipstream fiction; magical realism; fairy tales; folklore; environmental literature; gender and sexuality studies; creative nonfiction
shhuddle@go.olemiss.edu
M.A., American Studies, Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea
B.A., Korean Literature and Philosophy, Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea
Main interests: African American Literature; Critical Prison Studies, Black Feminism; Transnational Black Studies; the Global South; Cinema Studies
Kimberly Kotel
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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.
Kacee McKinney
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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
Bailey Moorhead
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B.A., Oklahoma State University
Areas of Interest: Research interests include Contemporary American Literature, specializing in modernism, historical fiction, U.S. South\West border spaces, and racial capitalism.
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
B.A. in English from Grace College
Research interests include mid-20th century Southern literature, particularly texts by women writers, the body in literature, disability studies, and environmental criticism
Joshua Nguyen
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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.
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B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Research interests include 20th Century American Literature, Southern Literature, Postwar Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Women and Gender Studies
Naza Amaeze Okoli
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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
William Palmer
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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
B.S.B.A., Finance, University of Arkansas
Research interests include Victorian literature, gender studies, Gothic literature Political economy
Margaret Pless
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
Seth Spencer
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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 Sabo
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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.
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.
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Georgia College & State University
B.A., Writing, University of Evansville
Research interests include Southern literature, Victorian poetry, American modernism
Will Underland
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B.S. Liberal Studies, MA in English, Middle Tennessee State University
Areas of Interest: American Literature, Ecocriticism, Psychoanalysis.
William Walker
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.
Regina Young
she/her/hers
M.A., University of Mississippi
B.A., University of Kentucky
Areas of Interest: Teaching and research interests include 20th-century American literature, medical humanities, disability studies, southern literature, gender and sexuality studies,
literary modernism, and ecocriticism.