Scott MacKenzie

Associate Professor of English

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• Email:

  smack@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  C-128 Bondurant Hall

• Phone:

  662-915-7439

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

Publications

Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home (2013, University of Virginia Press. Winner, Walker Cowan Prize)

“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)

Courses Taught

• ENG 717 Eighteenth-Century Studies
• ENG 715 Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century
• ENG 431 Special Topics in 18th-Century Literature
• ENG 337 Studies in Romanticism
• ENG 330 Studies in 18th-Century Literature
• ENG 299 Introduction to Literary Studies
• ENG 226 Survey of British Literature Since the Romantic Period
• ENG 220 Survey in Literary History

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of English

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford