Our Faculty

KATIE MCKEE

McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies

Associate Professor of English

Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00-3:00 and Thursday 1:00-2:30

Bondurant C129
662-915-7161
kmckee@olemiss.edu

Education
PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996)
MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1989)
BA 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." Coauthored 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.
  • 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.