Joan
Hall
Instructor
[Curriculum Vita]
Office: Somerville Hall 202
Telephone: 662-915-7286
Office Hours: MTWThF 10-10:45
E-mail: egjwh@olemiss.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, English and American Literature (1976)
- M.A., University of Notre Dame (1970)
- B.A., Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Indiana (1969)
Teaching and research interests:
- Southern literature
- 19th and 20th century American literature
- literature by and about women
- American literary regionalis
Selected publications:
- Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1993.
- "The Stork and the Reaper, the Madonna and the Stud: Procreation and Mothering in Tennessee Williams's Plays." Mississippi Quarterly 48 (1995): 677-700.
- "'The Book I Couldn't Have': The Perilous Attractions of Elsie Dinsmore." Eudora Welty Newsletter 23 (1999): 28-33.
- "Living 'Amid Romance': Ethnic Cultures in Ruth McEnery Stuart's New Orleans Stories." Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945. Ed. Suzanne Disheroon-Green and Lisa Abney. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 65-74.
- Articles on William Faulkner, Grace King, Willa Cather, Frances Newman, and other authors.