Joseph Urgo
Professor and Chair of Department
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Office: Bondurant C128
Office Hours (AY 2005-2006): MTWTF 10-4
Telephone: 662-915-7439
E-mail: jurgo@olemiss.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Brown University, American Civilization (1985)
- M.A., Brown University, American Civilization (1982)
- M.A.L.S. Wesleyan University (1981)
- B.A., Haverford College (1978)
Teaching and research interests:
- major literary figures: William Faulkner, Willa Cather, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 19th and 20th century American literature and culture
- the effect of the literary canon on intellectual currents
- literary studies in the digital age
- issues in higher education, academic administration
Selected publications:
- In the Age of Distraction (U of Mississippi P, 2000)
- Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration (U of Illinois P, 1995)
- Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture (U of Mississippi P, 1991)
- Faulkner's Apocrypha: A Fable, Snopes, and the Spirit of Human Rebellion (U of Mississippi P, 1989)
- Articles on Faulkner, Cather, Zora Neal Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, professing literature, teaching English