Faculty Profile
Kathryn B McKee
Areas of Expertise
- NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY SOUTHERN LITERATURE
- NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
Brief Bio
Kathryn McKee is McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English. Dr. McKee received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. She joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in 1997, after first teaching humanities at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Dr. McKee's research interests include nineteenth-century American and southern literature, southern women writers, global south studies, film studies, and humor studies. She has published essays in American Literature, Legacy, Studies in American Humor, the Southern Literary Journal, the Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Studies, American Transcendental Quarterly, and Studies in the American Renaissance. Dr. McKee teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in both Southern Studies and English, and she serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator for Southern Studies. She has received the Cora Lee Graham Award for the teaching of freshman and the Liberal Arts Teacher of the year award.
Degrees
BA |
English |
Centre College (1987) |
MA |
English |
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1989) |
PhD |
English |
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1996) |
Committee Memberships
CLA-Interdisciplinary Programs |
Ad Hoc Committee |
Southern Studies Major Program |
UG Application Selection Committee |
University Standing Committee |
Awards
University of Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year |
2001 |
College of Liberal Arts - Cora Lee Graham Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen |
2004 |
College of Liberal Arts - Outstanding Teacher of the Year |
2015 |