Kathryn McKee
Associate Professor of English
[Curriculum Vita]
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Office: Bondurant C129
Telephone: 662-915-7161
Office Hours (AY 2005-2006): T 1-3 and Th 1-2:30
E-mail: kmckee@olemiss.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996)
- M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1989)
- B.A., Centre College(1987)
Teaching and Research Interests
- Southern literature
- American literature before 1900
- Writing by Women
- Humor Studies
Selected Publications
- " Local Literatures, Global Contexts: The New Southern Studies." Co-authored introduction (with Annette Trefzer) to special issue of American Literature, forthcoming.
- "Writing Region from 'the Hub': Sherwood Bonner's Travel Letters and Questions of Postbellum U.S. Southern Identity," Legacy, forthcoming.
- "The Forgotten World of Idora McClellan Moore's Betsy Hamilton Letters." Studies in American Humor, 3.10 (2003). 65-76.
- "'Honey, yer ain't harf as smart as yer thinks yer is!': Race and Humor in Sherwood Bonner's Short Fiction." Southern Literary Journal 35.1 (Fall 2002), 28-46.
- "The Portable Eclipse: Hawthorne, Faulkner, and Scribbling Women." Faulkner and America: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1998. Eds. Ann Abadie and Joseph Urgo. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, forth Thursday, February 23, 2006 Finding Bobbie Ann Mason's Present in Her Past." Southern Literay Journal 31.1 (Fall 1998): 35-50.
- "Simply Talking: Women and Language in Kaye Gibbons's A Cure for Dreams." Southern Quarterly 35.4 (Summer 1997): 97-106.
- "'A fearful price I have had to pay for loving him': Ellery Channing's Troubled Relationship with Ralph Waldo Emerson." Studies in the American Renaissance (1994): 251-269.
- "'A small heap of glittering fragments': Hawthorne's Disillusionment with the Short Story." American Transcendental Quarterly 8.2 (June 1994): 137-147.
- "Rewriting Southern Male Introspection in Josephine Humphreys's Dreams of Sleep." Mississippi Quarterly 46.2 (Spring 1993): 241-254.