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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

Areas of Expertise

  • ACTING
  • ACTING AND DIRECTING
  • ACTOR TRAINING
  • AMERICAN DRAMA AND MODERN POETRY
  • ARCHIVES
  • BLACKS AND THE NEWS MEDIA
  • DIVERSITY AND GENDER STUDIES
  • FILM AND MOTION PICTURES
  • LITERATURE, CRITICAL THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
  • MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA
  • MOVEMENT FOR THE ACTOR
  • PLAYWRITING
  • SHAKESPEARE
  • THEATRE ARTS
  • THEATRE, DRAMATIC THEORY
  • THEATRE, MUSICAL

Brief Bio

Rhona Justice-Malloy is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Mississippi. She is a Fellow-Elect of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, a Fellow of the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and a Fellow of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. She received the University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts, Research, Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award. She has served as President of the Mid-America Theatre Conference and was the editor of Theatre History Studies for nine years. She is a member of the National Theatre Conference where she served two terms on the Board of Trustees. Justice-Malloy is also a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, the Women's Playwrights' Initiative and Actors Equity. Her publications include "The Florence Mills Association vs. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson: The Contentious Battle over Flo Mills' Monument in Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance and "Mothers, Daughters, Identity and Impossibilities" in Theatre History Studies. She is a contributing editor (with Scott Magelssen) of Enacting History, University of Alabama Press.

Degrees

BS
Theatre
University of Evansville (1976)
MFA
Acting
University of Georgia (1979)
PhD
Theatre
University of Georgia (1994)

Committee Memberships

CLA-Distinguished Prof. Advisory Comm.
Ad Hoc Committee

Awards

Liberal Arts-RSRCH, Scholarship, & Creative Achievement Award in the Humanities
2018