Scott MacKenzie

Associate Professor of English

Scott MacKenzie

Associate Professor of English, specializing in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, particularly prose fiction. Themes include history of political economy, poverty, eco-criticism, gothic, and domesticity

Research Interests

Prose fiction, history of political economy, poverty, eco-criticism, gothic fiction, narrative suspense, and domesticity

Biography

Scott MacKenzie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He completed his doctorate at Cornell University in 1999 and has held positions at Texas Christian University, the University of Alabama, Davidson College, and the University of British Columbia. His book "Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home," won the Walker Cowen Prize and was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2013. He has published articles on themes relating to prose fiction, political economy, domesticity, and narrative suspense in PMLA, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, European Romantic Review, Studies in Romanticism, Criticism, and other venues. He is completing a study entitled Poetics of Scarcity

“The Northanger Unconformity: Biblio-Stratigraphy and the Ends of Infinitude,” in Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation, special issue: “Empire, Capital, and Climate Change” 63.2 (2024), “The Scarcities of Udolpho,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, special issue: “The Economy of Form,” 55.2 (2022), “The Two Households: Economics and Ecology,” in The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities, ed. Seth T. Reno, Routledge, (2022), “The Livestock that Therefore We Are: Two Episodes from the Pre-History of Corporate Personhood,” in Human Rights after Corporate Personhood: An Uneasy Merger?, ed. Sharif Youssef and Jody Greene, U of Toronto Press (2020)

Education

Ph.D. English, Cornell University (1999)