Deborah Barker
Associate Professor of English
Phone Number: (662)915-7758
Email: dbarker@olemiss.edu

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Research Description: Teaches American literature (with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century women writers), film studies (with an emphasis on gender and southern film), and gender theory. She is currently working on a book-length project on southern film and has edited, with Dr. Kathryn McKee, two collections of essays on southern film.

Honors Theses:

Wilson, Amanda (2021) Dissipation in the 1920s: Disparate Presentations of Alcohol Consumption in Selected Works of Hemingway and Fitzgerald (full text)

Sunn, Farrah F. (2017) From the Attic to the Screen: An Adaptation of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. (full text)

Ray, Leslie Johns (2011) "Under the Blow Dryer: A Study of Three Fictional Beauty Shops"

Troiani, Cara Kathleen (2010) "Fitgerald's American Dream: It Happens to One, Not the Ninety-Nine"