Welcome to the Department of English at The University of Southern Mississippi.
We offer undergraduate and graduate programs on two campuses, one located in Hattiesburg and one on the Gulf Coast, both home to a wealth of critical and creative activities.
Our faculty's wide range of research areas and publications offers students a variety of course options, from the traditional literary canon, to contemporary fiction and poetry writing classes offered by faculty in the Center for Writers.
Resources such as the Writing Center, a writing tutorial service, are free to all Southern Miss students.
Students at the graduate level have opportunities to teach a range of classes, from composition to world literature and literature surveys, to assist in the publication of journals housed in the department, and to serve as research assistants to individual faculty members.
The South Mississippi Writing Project in Hattiesburg and the Live Oak Writing Project on the Coast enable teachers to stay connected with the university community and to pursue further study.
In the News
Spring 2009
- Prof. Barron to speak at Kansas City Big Read, LSU
- Tennessee Williams Expert [Prof. Kolin] Interviewed on Australian National Radio
- Former student Vincent Price has been accepted from a national pool of applicants to attend a new summer program at Rutgers University, the Rutgers English Diversity Institute
- Barthelme to read from newest novel, Waveland
- English Dept. Opens New Writing Studio
- PhD student, Miranda Freeman, was awarded the UNCF/Mellon Faculty Doctoral Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year
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