Misssissippi State University Department of English

Graduate Faculty - English

Instructors    
individual pages

Anderson, Thomas
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Shakespeare
tpa14@msstate.edu
Marsh, Kelly
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Penn. State Univ.
20th-century British literature
kmarsh@english.msstate.edu
Bentley, Gregory
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of California, Davis
Renaissance literature, drama
greg@english.msstate.edu
Myers, Gary (On Leave to the Dean's Office)
Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of Houston
Creative Writing, poetry; rhetoric
glm1@ra.msstate.edu

Claggett, Shalyn
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.,Vanderbilt University
Victorian literature
src173@msstate.edu

O'Donnell, Tennyson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Rhetoric and Composition
todonnell@english.msstate.edu
Creevy, Patrick
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard Univ.
19th-century British literature
patrick@english.msstate.edu
O'Neill, Bonnie
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Washington University
American literature before 1900
bco20@msstate.edu

Crossley, Scott
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of Memphis
Linguistics
sc544@msstate.edu

Patteson, Richard F.
Professor and Director of
Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania
20th-century literature; postcolonial studies
rfp1@ra.msstate.edu
Dodds, Lara
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
Renaissance literature, Milton
ld214@msstate.edu

Pierce, Catherine
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Creative Writing, poetry
cp341@msstate.edu

Hagenston, Becky
Associate Professor
M.F.A., Univ. of Arizona
Creative Writing, fiction
bh133@ra.msstate.edu
Pizer, Ginger
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Linguistics
gbp31@msstate.edu 
Hanshaw, Shirley
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Mississippi
African American Literature
sh449@msstate.edu

Polk, Noel
Professor Emeritus and Editor of The Mississippi Quarterly
Ph.D. Univ. of South Carolina
nep27@msstate.edu

Johnson, Holly
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Old and Middle English literature
hj71@msstate.edu

Raymond, Rich
Professor and Department Head
Ph.D., Miami University
18th-century literature, rhetoric and composition theory
rraymond@english.msstate.edu

Kardos, Michael
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Creative Writing, fiction
mpk36@msstate.edu

Shaffer, Donald
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago
African-American Literature
ds649@msstate.edu

Little, Matthew
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago
American literature; legal writing
littmatt@ra.msstate.edu
West, Robert
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
20th-century British and American literature
rmw107@ra.msstate.edu
Lyons, Richard
Professor and Director of
Creative Writing
Ph.D., Univ. of Houston
Creative Writing, poetry
rjl@ra.msstate.edu
Wolf, Richard
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago
18th-century literature
rbw2@ra.msstate.edu

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