Faculty Profile

Erin Drew
Assistant Professor of English
Phone Number: (662)915-2783
Email: eedrew@olemiss.edu
http://english.olemiss.edu/2013/07/03/erin-drew/

Key Words: eedrew@olemiss.edu

Research Description: Erin Drew specializes in environmental criticism and the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Her research interests include eighteenth-century poetry, environmental history, animal studies, and the depiction of non-human nature and science in literature. Currently, she is working on a book entitled "The Usufructuary Enlightenment: Environmental Thought in Eighteenth-Century Literature", which explores the role of the legal concept of usufruct in shaping the relationships among humans and nature in the eighteenth century.

Honors Theses:

Reid, Morgan Elizabeth (2021) Story and Sorority: How Sisters Shape the Novels of Jane Austen (full text)

Woods, Hannah (2020) More Than a Language: A Detailed Look at the English Major (full text)

Nall, Caroline Elizabeth (2020) Playing to Win: The Marriage Market in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility and Emma (full text)