Ann Fisher-WirthAnn Fisher-Wirth

Professor of English

Office: Bondurant C212
Telephone: 662-915-5929
Email: afwirth@olemiss.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., English and American literature, Claremont Graduate School (1981)
  • M.A., English and American literature, Claremont Graduate School (1972)
  • B.A., magna cum laude, English, Pomona College (1968)

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • 20th-Century American literature
  • 20th-Century poetry
  • Creative Writing (poetry, also creative nonfiction)
  • Ecocriticism
  • Literature and Environment

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Five Terraces (Wind Publications, 2005).
  • Walking Wu Wei's Scroll (The Drunken Boat, online, 2005).
  • The Trinket Poems (Wind, 2003).
  • Blue Window (poems). Archer Books, 2003.
  • "William Faulkner, Peter Matthiessen, and the Environmental Imagination." In Faulkner and Ecology, Ed. Joe Urgo, U MS Press, 2005.
  • "El Otro Sud: Willa Cather and Cormac McCarthy." In Value and Vision in American Literature: Literary Essays in Honor of Ray Lewis White, ed. Joseph Candido, Ohio UP, 2000, pp. 115-132.
  • 50 poems in The Kenyon Review, Natural Bridge, Feminist Studies, The Comstock Review, ForPoetry.com, Ekphrasis, Petroglyph, Organization and Environment, The Squaw Review, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Iris: A Journal About Women, The Georgia Review, Crossroads, Wilderness, Tundra, Southwest Review, Asheville Poetry Review.