Ralph Eubanks

Faculty Fellow and Writer in Residence

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  wreubank@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  255 Grove Loop,Barnard Observatory

• Phone:

  662-915-5993

• Website:

  Personal Website

Faculty Fellow, Black Power at Ole Miss

Biography

W. Ralph Eubanks is the Black Power at Ole Miss Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is the author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through A Real and Imagined Literary Landscape. He is also the author of two other works of nonfiction: Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road. A writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the American South, he was a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021-2022 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. His next book, When It's Darkness on the Delta: An American Reckoning, will be published by Beacon Press in 2025.

Publications

Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past Basic Books, September 2003

The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South HarperCollins, June 2009 Paperback, November 2011, University Press of Mississippi, A Place Called Mississippi: A Look at a Southern Literary Landscape, Workman Publishing, March 2021, When It’s Darkness on the Delta: An American Reckoning (forthcoming from Beacon Press, 2025).

Courses Taught

• SST 109 Southern Rights and Activism
• SST 599 Geography and Southern Literature

• Office, Department or Center

  Center for the Study of Southern Culture

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford