Annette Trefzer
Associate Professor of English
Phone Number: (662)915-7675
Email: atrefzer@olemiss.edu
http://english.olemiss.edu/2011/10/16/annette-trefzer/

Key Words: American Literature, Literary Theory and Methodology, Global South Studies and Southern Literature, Minority Literatures: Native American Literature and African American Literature

Research Description: Annette Trefzer teaches American literature and literary theory. She is the author of Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction (UP of Alabama, 2007) and the co-editor with Ann J. Abadie of several volumes of critical essays on William Faulkner including: Global Faulkner (2009), Faulkner's Sexualities (2010), Faulkner: The Returns of the Text (forthcoming) and Faulkner and Mystery. She is the co-editor with Dr. Kathryn McKee of a special issue of American Literature : Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies (Dec. 2006). She is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Faculty Working Group on the Global South dedicated to new research in Global South studies. She teaches courses in Southern Literature, American and Native American literature, and literary theory. She is interested in the relationship between visual and literary arts and has directed theses on photography. Dr. Trefzer is currently writing a book on the Mississippi author Eudora Welty.

Honors Theses:

Maher, Molly (2017) Photographic Representations of the South: Eudora Welty and Doris Ulmann. (full text)

Moore, Elizabeth (2016) Economic Enchantment in Eudora Welty's A Curtain of Green. (full text)

Moak, Rosemary (2013) "Economic Emancipation in the Plantation South: Women in William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Ernest Gaines, and Sherley Anne Williams"

Brasher, Jacob W. (2007) "Out of the Agrarian Closet: Rereading The Velvet Horn by its Queer Currents"

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