Jacob Agner

Academic Advisor

• Staff
• Instructor

• Email:

  jkagner@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  Martindale Student Services Center, Suite P

• Phone:

  662-915-5970

Jacob works as an academic advisor for the CSSFYE and instructor at the University of Mississippi.

Research Interests

My research revolves around the subjects of twentieth-century American literature and film; film noir and hard-boiled crime fiction; southern literature and culture; and rural studies. My last publication, for example, examined the hidden relationship(s) between southern author Eudora Welty and crime fiction and film.

Biography

Jacob grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, in the mountains of southcentral Appalachia, and he first moved to Oxford in 2012 for graduate school. He received his B.A. from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 2009, his M.A. in 2012 from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in 2024 from University of Mississippi (all in English).

Publications

Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight (2022), "Welty's Moonlighting Detective: Welty's Subversion of Whiteness and the American Noir Tradition in 'The Demonstrators.'"

'" New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race (2020): 189-213, "

"A Mountainoir: The Arrival of Country Noir and Frank Borzage's Moonrise (1948) in Retrospect." Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, and Television (2019): 50-63

"Salvaging The Counselor: Watching Cormac McCarthy's and Ridley Scott's Really Trashy Movie." The Cormac McCarty Journal 14.2 (2016): 204-226.

Courses Taught

• ENG 224 Survey of American Literature since the Civil War

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of English

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford