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Jennifer Peterson

Dr. Jennifer Peterson

Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Expertise

Poetry and poetics; Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry; Teaching First-Year Composition; Teaching Developmental Writing

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Jennifer.A.PetersonFREEMississippi

Rebecca Powell

Dr. Rebecca Powell

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

K-16 Writing Pedagogy, Teacher Education, Place Studies, Trauma and Narrative Writing

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Rebecca.A.PowellFREEMississippi

Maureen Ryan

Dr. Maureen Ryan

Emeritus

Areas of Expertise

modern and contemporary American Fiction

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Maureen.RyanFREEMississippi

Ery Shin

Ery Shin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

Modernism, Continental Philosophy, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Ery.ShinFREEMississippi

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Christopher Spaide

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

Poetry in English, especially modern and contemporary; transnational and global poetics; Anglophone modernism; poetry and race; theories of the lyric; ecopoetics; Asian American and Asian diasporic literature

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Christopher.SpaideFREEMississippi

Emily Stanback

Dr. Emily Stanback

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

British Romanticism, 18th- and 19th-century literature, disability studies, health humanities / medical humanities, histories of medicine and science

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Emily.StanbackFREEMississippi

Gary Stringer

Professor Gary Stringer

Emeritus

Areas of Expertise

English Renaissance Literature; textual and bibliographical studies

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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gary.stringerFREEMississippi

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Dr. Charles Sumner

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

20th and 21st century British Literature

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Charles.SumnerFREEMississippi

Eric Tribunella

Eric Tribunella

Professor

Areas of Expertise

children's and young adult literature, lesbian and gay literature, queer and gender theory

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Eric.TribunellaFREEMississippi

Alexandra Valint

Dr. Alexandra Valint

Professor

Areas of Expertise

Victorian literature, children's and young adult literature, narrative theory, gothic theory, disability studies

College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English

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Alexandra.ValintFREEMississippi