Jay Watson
Associate Professor

[Curriculum Vita]

Office: Bondurant C211
Office Hours: (AY 2005-2006) T/Th 3:30-5 and by appt.
Telephone: 662-915-7671
E-mail: jwatson@olemiss.edu

• Southern literature and culture
• The literature of the Vietnam War
• "New Materialist" theory and criticism focusing on the human body as a site where power is applied and resisted
• Narrative literature and theory
• Law and literature; law and humanitie

• Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993)
• "Uncovering the Body, Discovering Ideology: Segregation and Sexual Hygiene in Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream," American Quarterly 49.3 (September 1997): 470-503.
• "Writing Blood: The Art of the Literal in Light in August," Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1996, ed. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999), 66-96.
• "Guys and Dolls: Exploratory Repetition and Maternal Subjectivity in the Fort/Da Game," American Imago 52.4 (Winter 1995): 463-503.
• "The Rhetoric of Exhaustion and the Exhaustion of Rhetoric: Erskine Caldwell in the Thirties," Mississippi Quarterly 46.2 (Spring 1993): 215-229.
• Other articles on Faulkner