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The Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy operate on both the Oxford and Jackson campuses. The Schools of Dentistry, Health Related Professionals and Medicine, and the Health Sciences Graduate School, are based in Jackson only. (Additional healthcare programs are available through the School of Applied Sciences on the Oxford campus.) Other than these exceptions, the schools above are on the Oxford campus.

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Joined UM: December 31, 1969

Brief Bio

Joan Wylie Hall, lecturer in English, earned a doctorate in American and English literature from Notre Dame University. She has also taught at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (Indiana) College and conducted tutorials for junior English majors at Harvard. Author of "Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction" and editor of "Conversations with Audre Lorde," she has published more than 50 book chapters and journal articles on Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Ann Patchett, William Faulkner, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Anna Deavere Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and other authors. She has also published more than 100 book reviews. Her main research interests are southern literature, African American literature, and American women's writing. Listed in "Who's Who in America 2007," "Who's Who in American Education 2007-2008," and "Who's Who of American Women 2007," she received a Travel to Collections grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities and an Earhart Foundation research fellowship.

Degrees

BA
English
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1969)
MA
English
University of Notre Dame (1970)
PhD
English
University of Notre Dame (1976)

Awards

College of Liberal Arts - Instructor of the Year
2014