Jesse J. Scott

Assistant Profesor of English & African American Studies

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Office: 304 Longstreet
Telephone: 662-915-5977
E-mail: jjscott@olemiss.edu

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Maryland (2007)
• M.A. in Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University (1998)
• B.A. in English, Virginia Commonwealth University (1996)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests include 20th-century African American Literature, American Friday, October 5, 2007ally interested in Toni Morrison’s novels and African American masculinity in literature and popular film. My current research project examines community, memory and gender in Toni Morrison’s and Ernest Gaines’s fiction.