Kathryn McKee
Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, McMullan Professor of Southern Studies, and Professor of English
I am the Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, McMullan Professor of Southern Studies, and Professor of English.
Research Interests
American literature, women writers, postbellum U.S. South, film, humor studies
Biography
Kathryn McKee is the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and McMullan Professor of Southern Studies and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She has a BA from Centre College and an MA and PhD in American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South (2019) and co-editor with Deborah Barker of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (2011). She teaches American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specializing in postbellum writing of the U.S. South.
Courses Taught
- ENG 223 Survey of American Literature to the Civil War
- ENG 224 Survey of American Literature Since the Civil War
- ENG 314 The Cinematic South
- ENG 340 Antebellum American Literature
- ENG 354 Survey of Southern Literature
- ENG 357 Women in the South
- ENG 762 Studies in 19th-Century American Literature
- ENG 775 Studies in American Literary Regionalism
- ENG 776 Studies in Southern Literature
- SST 101 Introduction to Southern Studies
- SST 401 Senior Seminar in Southern Studies
- SST 601 Graduate Seminar I in Southern Studies
- SST 602 Graduate Seminar II in Southern Studies
- SST 612 The U.S. South and Globalization
Education
B.A. English, Centre College (1987)
M.A. English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1989)
Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1996)