Professional Development Through Service Opportunities

• "Southern Writers, Southern Writing" (SWSW), a national graduate conference co-sponsored annually by the Department: planning, organizing, programming
  
• "Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha", an international conference co-sponsored annually by the Department: organizing and programming
  
• The Renaissance Studies symposium and Savage Lecture in the Renaissance, co-sponsored annually by the Department: planning, organizing, programming
  
• The Oxford Conference for the Book, a national conference co-sponsored annually by the Department: organizing and programming
  
• The John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writers Series: organizing, programming
  
• Business Manager and Editorial Assistant for Global Souths (formerly Journal x), the Department's biannual journal in literary and cultural studies
  
• Editorial staff of The Yalobusha Review, the Department's annual journal of creative writing
  
• The Mississippi Writers Page, an online reference work founded and maintained by the Department
• University Writing Center: tutoring, workshop and program development
  
• English Graduate Student Body (EGSB): Elected Officer or Department committee representative
  
• Assistant to the Department Chair
  
• Assistant to the Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women
  
• Assistant to the Undergraduate Studies Director
  
• Assistant to the Graduate Studies Director
  
• Tutor at the Writing Center
  
• Research Assistant to individual faculty members on scholarly and/or editorial project