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The Staff
 Danielle Sypher-Haley
Administrative Assistant
danielle.sypherhaley@usm.edu
 Darcie Conrad
Assistant to the Chair
darcie.conrad@usm.edu
The Faculty
 Angela Ball
Professor of English
B.A. Ohio University
M.F.A. University of Iowa
Ph.D. University of Denver
Research/teaching interests: Creative writing, poetry; contemporary American poetry
Angela Ball is a prize-winning poet and author of Kneeling Between Parked Cars and Possession. Her book, Quartet, was released in 1995 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and her most recent collection of poems, The Museum of the Revolution: 58 Exhibits, was published in 1999 by Carnegie Mellon. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The New Yorker, Partisan Review, the New Republic, Field, the Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Chelsea, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Poetry, and Grand Street. Her work was included in Best American Poetry 2001, and she has represented the United States at the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, and the Colombian International Poetry Festival, Bogotá. Angela Ball has received grants from the Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Current projects: Now completing work on International Poetry Issue of Mississippi Review and two manuscripts of poems: "Remembered Sentences: Poems on Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle" and "Sleepy Girl."
Angela.Ball@usm.edu | LAB 366 | (601) 266-4983
 Jonathan N. Barron
Associate Professor of English
B.A. Tufts University
M.A. Indiana University
Ph.D. Indiana University
Research/teaching interests: American poetry, particularly modernist and contemporary; Jewish-American literature, particularly poetry Jonathan Barron recently published his third book, New Formalist Poets, with Gale Publishing, co-edited with Bruce Meyer of the University of Toronto. It is volume number 282 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series. The book, at close to 200,000 words, contains 42 essays by 36 contributors, and is largely comprised of biographical/critical essays of New Formalist Poets such as Dana Gioia, Marilyn Hacker, Alfred Corn, Vikram Seth, Molly Peacock.
His other books include: Roads Not Taken: Rereading Robert Frost (University of Missouri Press, 2000) co-edited with Earl Wilcox of Winthrop University; and Jewish American Poetry co-edited with Eric Selinger of DePaul University (Brandeis/University Press of New England, 2000). He has published numerous essays on American poets and poetry including several for the Scribners American Writers series.
Additionally, he directs The Robert Frost Society and edits The Robert Frost Review, the only international peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the life work and times of Robert Frost. The journal is produced through The Robert Frost Society and with the support of the Southern Miss English department. The Robert Frost Society is the only academic society to regularly sponsor meetings about the life and work of Robert Frost at two annual conferences: The Modern Language Association, The American Literature Association.
Jonathan.Barron@usm.edu | LAB 337 | (601) 266-6213
 Frederick Barthelme
Professor of English
Director, Center for Writers
Editor, Mississippi Review
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
Research/teaching interests: Fiction, nonfiction, electronic publishing
Frederick Barthelme is author of 14 books, including Moon Deluxe, Second Marriage, Tracer, Two Against One, Natural Selection, The Brothers, Painted Desert, and Bob the Gambler. He is an occasional contributor to The New Yorker and has published in GQ, Kansas Quarterly, Epoch, Playboy, Esquire, TriQuarterly, North American Review, Frank, and elsewhere. His memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, released in November 1999, was co-authored with his brother Steven. A retrospective collection of stories, The Law of Averages, was published by Counterpoint Press in November 2000 and released in paperback in August 2001. His latest novel, Elroy Nights, was published in October 2003 by Counterpoint.
Frederick.Barthelme@usm.edu | LAB 369 | (601) 266-4323
 Melanie Barthelme
Writing Center Director
Senior Lecturer
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. The University of Southern Mississippi
mlhb18@hotmail.com | LAB 368 | (601) 266-5495
 Steven Barthelme
Professor of English
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
Research/teaching interests: Fiction, nonfiction prose
Steven Barthelme publishes widely in literary magazines; he has a story collection, And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story, and he won a Pushcart Prize in 1993. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Texas Observer, Elle Decor, and elsewhere, and his fiction has been widely published in, among many others, McSweeney's, Yale Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. His memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, co-authored with his brother, was released by Houghton Mifflin in November 1999.
Steven.Barthelme@usm.edu | LAB 365 | (601) 266-5211
 James Bucky Carter
Instructor
BSEd. Western Carolina University
B.A. Western Carolina University
M.A. University of Tennessee
Ph.D. University of Virginia (in progress)
James Bucky Carter is a Visiting Instructor in English/English Education. His interests include teacher education and intersections among literacy, pedagogy, and sequential art narratives (comics and graphic novels). He has taught English to middle school, high school, community college, undergraduate and graduate students. His work has been accepted in journals such as ImageText, The International Journal of Comic Art, Marvels and Tales, and English Journal. He has published chapters in the collections Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills (Corwin, 2008) and Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel (NCTE, 2007), a book for which he was also the general editor. He has reviewed for English Education and is on the NCTE review panel for the online lesson plan site ReadWriteThink.org. He is a member of NCTE’s Cosponsored Speakers Network. Currently, he is working on his second edited collection detailing means by which teachers can use graphic novels effectively in their secondary classrooms.
James.B.Carter@usm.edu | LAB 353
Damon Franke
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Research/teaching interests: Late Victorian and Modern British literature, modernism, Irish Studies, discourse history, narratology, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Bloomsbury Group, literatures of the environment
Damon’s study of the intellectual history of the origins of modernism, Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924, is forthcoming from the Ohio State University Press. He has published in Studies in the Novel, The James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of Narrative Theory, Nineteenth-Century Prose, English Language Notes, and SubStance.
Current projects: a book-length project with the working title Edwardian Literatures of the Environment; essays on religious identity, performatives, and violence in Howards End and the films of Gary Cooper.
Damon.Franke@usm.edu | (228) 214-3361
 Lorie Watkins Fulton
Instructor and Coordinator of Basic Composition
Research/teaching interests: Southern literature, African American literature, and American modernism
Lorie Watkins Fulton teaches undergraduate classes in basic composition and American literature and her current projects include essays on Ernest Hemingway and Eudora Welty, short essays and questions for discussion on ten of William Faulkner’s characters for the Student’s Companion to American Literary Characters, and a book-length manuscript that examines William Faulkner’s critique of the Cavalier myth. She has published essays in The Faulkner Journal, The Hemingway Review, Southern Studies, African American Review, The Mississippi Quarterly, The Southern Literary Journal, and Modern Philology. She is also a member of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s Bibliography Committee and a reader for several journals and textbook companies.
Lorie.Fulton@usm.edu | LAB 219 | (601) 266-4259
Elizabeth Kay Harris
Associate Professor of English
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.A.University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth.Harris@usm.edu | LAB 354 | (601) 266-5852
 Stanley R. Hauer
Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies
B.A. Auburn University
M.A. Auburn University
Ph.D. University of Tennessee
Research/teaching interests: English and Germanic philology
Stanley Hauer teaches courses in the history of the English language as well as instruction in the medieval languages of Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Gothic. He is best known for his scholarship on the Old English poem "Exodus" and Thomas Jefferson, who was among the first in America to study Anglo-Saxon.
Stanley.Hauer@usm.edu | LAB 326 | (601) 266-5600
 Molly Clark Hillard
Assistant Professor of English
M.A. University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. University of Califorina, Davis
Research/teaching interests: Nineteenth-century British literature, folklore and national identity, women's literature and gender studies, Victorian popular literature and culture, postcolonial and imperial studies, children's literature
Molly Clark Hillard teaches classes in and writes about the long nineteenth century, but focuses upon Victorian literature and culture. She is the author of "Dangerous Exchange: Fairy Footsteps, Goblin Economies and The Old Curiosity Shop" (Dickens Studies Annual, 2005), entries in The Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (Greenwood, 2006), "Dickens's Little Red Riding Hood and Other Waterside Characters" (forthcoming in SEL), "' When Desert Armies Stand Ready to Fight': Re-Reading Saturday and 'Dover Beach'" (forthcoming in Partial Answers). She is currently at work on a book-length manuscript, "'Obscure Dread and Intense Desire': Folklore, Literature, and the Victorians," which explores the ways in which middle-class English identity—itself the imaginative construct of English verse, fiction, and popular culture—relied on fantastic figures and plots for sustenance.
molly.hillard@usm.edu | LAB 341 | (601) 266-4199
 Sheri I. Hoem
Senior Instructor
Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo
Research/teaching interests: ethnicity, gender, postmodernism and critical theory
Sheri I. Hoem received her Ph.D. in English from SUNY-Buffalo and taught for nine years at Xavier U. of Louisiana in New Orleans, where she was a tenured associate professor. Her research addresses issues of ethnicity, gender, postmodernism and critical theory. She has published articles on Samuel Beckett, John Edgar Wideman and others in journals such as Diacritics, Paragraph, African American Review, Textual Practice and Novel. She is currently working on ethnic images in film and television.
Sheri.Hoem@usm.edu | LAB 343 | (601) 266-4070
 Luis A. Iglesias
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. Florida International University
M.A. Florida International University
M.A. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ph.D. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Research/teaching interests: Early American literature and culture from colonial to antebellum period, transatlantic culture and history, the literatures of the American hemisphere, the rise of the American novel, book and print histories, masculinity studies and queer theory.
Luis Iglesias has presented several papers on sea fiction and the career of James Fenimore Cooper. He has published in The Papers of the James Fenimore Cooper Society and has coauthored an article in American Literature on race and theatre in early 19th century New York City. A review of Afloat and Ashore, the most recent scholarly edition in the James Fenimore Cooper project, is forthcoming. He is currently working on another article on Cooper’s late sea novels and the Mexican American War. His larger project is on the development of American sea fiction and the transatlantic dimensions of Cooper’s literary career as America’s first national author.
Luis.Iglesias@usm.edu | LAB 327 | (601) 266-4060
 Julia Johnson
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. Hollins University
M.F.A. University of Virginia
Julia Johnson, a native of New Orleans, was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she took her M.F.A. in 1995. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Third Coast, Poetry International, 64, and New Orleans Review. Her first book of poems, Naming the Afternoon, was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 2002. She has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize three times and is the winner of the Fellowship of Southern Writers' 2003 New Writing Award. She has taught as an assistant professor at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and elsewhere.
Julia.Johnson@usm.edu | LAB 360 | (601) 266-4067
 Sherita L. Johnson
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. Alabama State University (Montgomery)
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research/teaching interests: African American Literature (esp. 19th and early 20th century), Southern Literature, African American Women Writers (especially 19th century), Feminist Theory, and Cultural Studies
Sherita L. Johnson's research and teaching interests cover major historical events (e.g. slavery, the Civil War, industrialization, Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and "The Great Migration") and cultural movements (e.g. abolition, women's rights /suffrage, and the development of progressive ideologies: "the New Negro" and the "Black Woman's Era"). Her articles about The South, Southern Studies, Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, and Literary Societies were published in An Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005). She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines African American protest literature and racial politics in the South during the early Jim Crow era of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Sherita.Johnson@usm.edu | LAB 333 | (601) 266-4068
 Nicolle M. Jordan
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. Wesleyan University
M.A. Brown University
Ph.D. Brown University
Research and teaching interests: Restoration and 18th-century British literature and culture, history of gardening and landscape, historical ecology, feminist theory.
Nicolle Jordan teaches and writes about British literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, focusing on how environmental and ecological concerns inform the literature of the period. Her forthcoming articles include "'Where Power Is Absolute': Royalist Politics and the Improved Landscape in a Poem by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea" (The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Fall 2006) and "Public Despotism: Caleb Williams and the Insidious Power of Popular Opinion" (Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Spring 2007). She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Gender, Ecology, and Improvement: Managing the Estate in the Long Eighteenth Century, which investigates the role of women in the improvement discourse of early-modern Britain.
Nicolle.Jordan@usm.edu | LAB 331 | (601) 266-4817
 Sherry Kinkopf
Instructor
B.S. The University of Southern Mississippi
M.Ed. William Carey College
Sherry Kinkopf is a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and has taught in public schools for 10 years, including Lumberton Public School District, Covington County Schools, Petal Education Center, and Hattiesburg High School. While in Covington County, she was a 2002 recepient of a Teaching Tolerance Grant funded through the Southern Poverty Law Association of Alabama. In 2004 she was a South Mississippi Writing Project Summer Fellow and currently serves as a teacher consultant, conducting staff development and inservice training for area schools and teachers. She has presented at several state and regional conferences, including the Mississippi Association of Middle Level Educators and The Destin Nuts and Bolts Symposium. Currently, she works with English Licensure students in pre-service courses and supervises teacher candidates during field experiences.
Sherry.Kinkopf@usm.edu | LAB 344 | (601) 266-4979
 Philip C. Kolin
Professor of English
B.S. Chicago State University
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Research/teaching interests: Shakespeare, American drama (especially Tennessee Williams), and writing Christian poetry
Philip C. Kolin was the first Charles W. Moorman Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and won the Innovation Award in Applied Research in 2006. He has published more than 30 books and about 200 scholarly articles on Shakespeare, modern American drama (especially the plays of Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee), and business writing with such presses as Cambridge, Routledge, St. Martin's, Houghton Mifflin, University of Alabama, University Press of Mississippi, Peter Lang, G. K. Hall, and McFarland. In 2004 Greenwood published his Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia, which debuted at the Kennedy Center. Kolin has also taught and done research on African American playwrights and has published Understanding Adrienne Kennedy in 2005 with the U of South Carolina Press and edited Contemporary African American Women Playwrights for Routledge in 2007. Also in 2007, Kolin has published articles on Kennedy in the CLA Journal and the African American Review. In 2009 Houghton Mifflin will release the 9th edition of his widely respected Successful Writing at Work. Further, Kolin is the General Editor for the Routledge Shakespeare Criticism Series and published an article on Othello and St. Matthew's eschatological parable in 25.31-46 in Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition. A poet as well, Kolin has published three books of poems (Deep Wonder won an award from the Catholic Press Association) and coedited the anthology Hurricane Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita. More than 100 of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such magazines as the Michigan Quarterly Review, Christianity and Literature, Louisiana Literature, Blue Collar Review, Anglican Theological Review, Theology Today (Princeton), and South Carolina Review.
Philip.Kolin@usm.edu | LAB 359 | (601) 266-4329
 Jameela Lares
Associate Professor of English
B.A. California State University, Fullerton
M.A. UCLA
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Research/teaching interests: English Renaissance and seventeeth-century literature, especially Milton; history of rhetoric, especially English reformed preaching; Bible and biblical style; children's and young adult literature.
Publications: Milton and the Preaching Arts (Duquesne University Press and James Clarke & Co. Ltd., 2001), articles in Milton Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, Cithara, Notes & Queries, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and numerous reviews.
Current and Forthcoming Projects: a book on seventeenth-century biblical style; extensive notes on Paradise Lost, books 11-12 for the Variorum Commentary of the Poems of John Milton; an edition and translation of Milton's Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio; an edition and translation of a short Latin preaching manual; articles for the new Milton Encyclopedia; an article, “Milton and the Bible,” in an MLA Approaches volume; and an article on linguistic uncertainty in Winnie-the-Pooh.
Jameela.Lares@usm.edu | LAB 349 | (601) 266-6214
 William Michael Mays
Associate Professor of English, Chair of the Department
B.A. University of Puget Sound
M.A. University of Washington
Ph.D. University of Washington
Research/teaching interests: Modern and Contemporary Irish and English literature; History of Criticism and Theory; Modernism; Cultural and Political Theory
Michael Mays is the author of Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism (2007). His work on modern and contemporary Irish culture and society has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Irish Studies Review, College Literature, Colby Quarterly and elsewhere. World War I and the Cultures of Modernity, a co-edited collection of essays, appeared in 2000.
Michael.Mays@usm.edu | LAB 341 | (601) 266-4660
 Joseph Navitsky
Assistant Professor of English
BA Saint Joseph’s University
MA Boston University
PhD Boston University
Research/teaching interests: Shakespeare, early modern drama, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, satire and parody, religious literature, print culture, the Bakhtin Circle
Joseph Navitsky’s research and teaching interests begin with the Tudor dynasty and Reformation England. His scholarship is primary concerned with early modern religious conflict, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, and the rise of satire in 1590’s England. He has work forthcoming on the Martin Marprelate Controversy and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Current projects include studies of state-sponsored satire and the War of the Theaters.
Joseph.Navitsky@usm.edu | LAB 353 | (601) 266-4286
 Linda M. Pierce
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. Western Washington University
M.A. Western Washington University
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Research/teaching interests: Multiethnic American literature with emphases in Filipino/a American, Asian American, and African American studies; critical race theory; postcolonial literature and theory; feminist theory and women's studies
Dr. Linda M. Pierce is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi where she teaches multiethnic American literature with emphases in Filipino/a American, Asian American, and African American studies; critical race theory; postcolonial literature and theory; feminist theory and women's studies. Her recent essay, “Not Just My Closet: Exposing Familial, Cultural, and Imperial Skeletons,” appears in Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, which is the first collection of Filipina American feminist cultural criticism by and about Filipina Americans (Routledge, 2005). Her introductions to Filipino American writer Carlos Bulosan and his fictional autobiography, America Is in the Heart, are forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature (2005). She edited the summer 2003 issue of Arizona Quarterly (59.2), which features her introduction, “Questions of Identity: Complicating Race in American Literary History.” Her article, “Pinay White Woman,” appears in Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
Linda is currently working on her book-length manuscript, Displaced Memory: Multiethnic Theories of U.S. Decolonization.
Linda.Pierce@usm.edu | LAB 335 | (601) 266-4796
 Maureen Ryan
Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
Professor of English
B.A. Penn State University
M.A. Temple University
Ph.D. Temple University
Research/teaching interests: 20th-century American literature and women's literature
Maureen Ryan's publications include Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford (Louisiana State University Press, 1987); articles on modern and contemporary American women writers (including Marilynne Robinson, Lillian Hellman, and Bobbie Ann Mason); and articles on American women writers and Vietnam, the Vietnam novels of Robert Olen Butler, aftermath novels by Vietnam veterans, Vietnam POW Wives in American Literature, Vietnamese refugees in southern fiction, and the Vietnam antiwar movement in contemporary American literature.
Current projects: "Bringing Home the War: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War"
Maureen.Ryan@usm.edu | LAB 221 | (601) 266-4831
 Michael N. Salda
Associate Professor of English
A.B. University of Chicago
A.M. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research/teaching interests: Medieval and Renaissance English and French literature, King Arthur, history of the book, film, animation, online learning.
Publications: La Bibliothèque de François Ier au Château de Blois, The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur (co-edited), five volumes of Chaucer Yearbook (co-edited); articles that include "When Women Learn to Write in Old French Prose Romance," "'What's Up, Duke?' A Brief History of Arthurian Animation," "William Faulkner's Arthurian Tale: Mayday," "Pages from History: The Medieval Palace of Westminster as a Source for the Dreamer’s Chamber in the Book of the Duchess," and "Reconsidering Vinaver's Sources for Malory's 'Tristram'"; and three popular online archives—the Cinderella Project, the Little Red Riding Hood Project, and the Jack and the Beanstalk/Jack the Giant Killer Project—based on original materials housed in USM's de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection.
Current projects: "The Earliest Arthurian Animation: 'Bosko's Knight-Mare' (1933) and King Arthur's Knights (1941)," "The Worst Arthurian Cartoon Ever," and a monograph on Arthurian animation.
Michael.Salda@usm.edu | LAB 339 | (601) 266-4454
 Martina Mary Sciolino
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo
Research/teaching interests: twentieth-century American novel, the short story; twentieth-century African-American literature, American women’s literature, critical theory/cultural studies/feminist theory, literature and film, academic community service learning, and women’s studies.
Martina Sciolino has published articles on postmodern fiction and feminist theory. Her recent work includes a forthcoming essay on Eudora Welty and African American criticism as well as conference presentations on postmodern autobiography and the mental illness memoir. She is also developing advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the relations between poetry, politics and community in contemporary America.
Martina.Sciolino@usm.edu | LAB 352 | (601) 266-6971
 Eric Tribunella
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. University of Florida
M.A. University of Florida
M.Phil. City University of New York, Graduate Center
Ph.D. City University of New York, Graduate Center
Research/teaching interests: children's and young adult literature, lesbian and gay literature, queer theory, gender studies, and critical theory (especially psychoanalysis and reader response)
Eric Tribunella's article "Refusing the Queer Potential: John Knowles's A Separate Peace" was published in Children's Literature in 2002, and more recently his essay "Narrative Loss and the Melancholic Reader of Johnny Tremain" appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature (2006). He received the 2006 Article Honor Award from the Children's Literature Association for his essay, "A Boy and His Dog: Canine Companions and the Proto-Erotics of Youth," which appeared in Children's Literature Association Quarterly (2004). His essay "Institutionalizing The Outsiders: YA Literature, Social Class, and the American Faith in Education" is forthcoming in Children's Literature in Education, and he is currently working on a book-length project about the disciplinary and reformative uses of trauma and loss in American children's and young adult literature after World War II.
Eric.Tribunella@usm.edu | LAB 329 | (601) 266-4069
 Sheldon R. Walcher
Assistant Professor of English
Director of the Composition Program
B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz
M.F.A. Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. University of Utah
Research/teaching interests: Composition theory and pedagogy; critical theory; history of rhetoric; writing program administration; critical discourse studies; and the avant-garde
Sheldon Walcher teaches courses in and writes about composition; composition history, theory and pedagogy; critical theory; and conceptual metaphor. He is author of “Environmentalist Approaches to Portals and Course Management Systems” (Journal of Library Science), and his fiction and criticism has appeared in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops, Moxie Magazine, CrossConnect, and Quarry West.
Sheldon is currently working on a book-length manuscript focusing on the history of “error” as a discursive construct, and the political, social and ideological functions error has played in the maintenance and promotion of Rhetoric and Composition as a discipline.
Sheldon.Walcher@usm.edu | LAB 370 | (601) 266-4815
 Kenneth V. Watson
Associate Professor of English
A.B. Kenyon College
M.A. University of Vermont
Ph.D. Duke University
Kenneth.Watson@usm.edu | LAB 342 | (601) 266-7072
 Ellen Mary Weinauer
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
B.A. University of Wisconsin
M.A. Indiana University
Ph.D. Indiana University
Research/teaching interests: American literature, particularly of the 19th century; American women writers; women's and gender studies; law and literature
Ellen Weinauer is the co-editor of American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard (2003) and the author of articles on such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Elizabeth Stoddard, and William Craft. She is currently at work on a book manuscript that explores the relationship between property rights and gothic literature in the American 19th century. Her teaching interests include the American Renaissance, American women and African-American writers, and American cultural studies.
Ellen.Weinauer@usm.edu | LAB 340 | (601) 266-6045
 J. Elaine White
Associate Professor of English
Gulf Park Program Coordinator
B.A. The University of North Texas
M.A. East Central University
Ph.D. The University of Oklahoma
Research/teaching interests: English secondary education pedagogy; research in the teaching of writing in elementary and secondary schools; teacher research in the teaching of writing.
J. Elaine White is co-author of Making Your First Year a Success: The Secondary Teacher’s Survival Guide as well as articles dealing with effective leadership in National Writing Project sites. In addition to teaching English licensure courses on the Gulf Coast campuses, she also directs The Live Oak Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project. Part of the work with LOWP includes partnerships with schools and other educational entities in the coastal counties. Work for Live Oak Writing Project is funded through grants from the U.S. Department of Education and income from staff development programs LOWP sells to local schools. Each year LOWP provides over 20,000 hours of work with students and teachers on the Mississippi Coast.
Elaine.White@usm.edu | (601) 266-2633
The Instructors
 J. Britt Haraway
Instructor of English
M.A. University of Southern Mississippi
Ph.D. University of Southern Mississippi
Britt Haraway received an MA and PhD from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is teaching as a visiting instructor this year. During the spring, he will be part of the faculty for USM's Abbey Program in Pontlevoy, France.
Claude.Haraway@usm.edu | LAB 336
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