Annette TrefzerAnnette Trefzer
Associate Professor of English

[Curriculum Vita]

Office: Bondurant C132
Telephone: 662-915-7685
E-mail: atrefzer@olemiss.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Tulane University (1992)
  • M.A., Tulane University (1985)
  • Magister, Universitat Hamburg, Germany (1985)
  • B.A., Wirtschaftsgymnasium Hamburg-Harburg, Germany (1982)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • American Literature
  • Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
  • Global South Studies and Southern Literature
  • Minority Literatures, especially Native American Literature and African American Literature

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Edited Collections

  • Transculturations: Ethnographic Fictions in the Global South, in progress
  • Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
  • Faulkner's Sexualities. Ed. Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, forthcoming 2009.
  • Global Faulkner. Ed. Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, forthcoming 2008.
  • "Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies." Special issue of American Literature 78.4. December 2006. Ed. Annette Trefzer and Kathryn McKee.
  • Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism, University of Mississippi, 2001-2004. Ed. Annette Trefzer and Karen Raber.

Articles

  • "Andrew Lytle's Conquest Narratives." The Sea is History: Exploring the Atlantic. Ed. Carmen Birkle and Nicole Waller. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, forthcoming.
  • "Southern American Indian Literature." The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Vol. 9. Literature. Ed. James G. Thomas. University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming.
  • "On Postmodern Self-Positioning: Teaching Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse." Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works. Ed. John Lowe. MLA, forthcoming.
  • "Preface: Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies.” American Literature 78.4 (December 2006): 677-690.
  • "The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements.” American Literature 78.4 (December 2006): 691-92.
  • "Imperial Discourses in Caroline Gordon's Green Centuries." Mississippi Quarterly 57.1 (Winter 2003- 2004). Special Issue: Postcolonial Theory, the U.S. South and New World Studies. 113-122.
  • "Tracing the Natchez Trace: Native Americans and National Anxieties in Eudora Welty's 'First Love.'" The Mississippi Quarterly 55.3 (Summer 2002): 419-440.
  • "Postcolonial Displacements in Faulkner's Indian Stories of the 1930s." Faulkner in the 21st Century. Eds. Robert Hamblin and Don Kartiganer. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2002. 68-88.
  • "Possessing the Self: Caribbean Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse." African-American Review 34.2 (Summer 2000): 299-312.