Beth-Ann FennellyMary Hayes
Assistant Professor of English

Office: Bondurant C121
Telephone: 662-915-7456
E-mail: hayes@olemiss.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of Iowa (2005)
  • M.A., University of Chicago
  • B.A., Dartmouth College

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Old and Middle English Literature
  • History of the English Language
  • Medieval Religious Devotion
  • Medieval Drama
  • Gender Studies
  • History of the Senses/Sound Theory
  • Magic and the Occult
  • Victorian, Modern and Postmodern medievalisms

PUBLICATIONS

  • "The Talking Dead: Resounding Voices in Old English Riddles," Exemplaria 20 (2008), forthcoming.
  • "Privy Speech: Sacred Silence, Dirty Secrets in The Summoner's Tale," The Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 263-88.
  • "Discovering the Witch's Teat: Magical Practices, Medical Superstitions in The Witch of Edmonton," Journal for the Academic Study of Magic 3 (2005): 43-73.
  • Articles in Studies in Weird Fiction and Romani Studies