Jamie Harker
Associate Professor of English
Phone Number: (662)915-3172
Email: jlharker@olemiss.edu
http://english.olemiss.edu/2011/10/16/jaime-harker/

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Research Description: Jaime Harker holds a Ph.D. in English from Temple University. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where she teachers American literature, world literature, and gender studies. She has published essays on Japanese translation, popular women writers of the interwar period, Oprah’s book club, and gay and lesbian literature. She is the author of America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars and the co-editor of The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club. She is currently working on a book on Christopher Isherwood.

Honors Theses:

Temple, Virginia Grace (2022) Hey Queens! (full text)

Morgan, Haley (2021) The Future is Queer: Understanding the Role of the Transgender Community in the Broader LGBTQ+ Movement (full text)

Shoemaker, Ashlign D. (2020) Queering Secondary Education: An Inquiry to the Necessity of Queer Studies for All Students (full text)

Dupree, Amber Erin Dupree (2018) Reevaluating Religion: A Case for Inclusivity of LGBTQ Christians in the Church (full text)

Hollingsworth, Zachary Hez (2018) "A Modernized Fairy Tale": Speculations on Technology, Labor, Politics, & Gender in the Oz Series (full text)

McGehee, Melissa Marie (2013) "Same Dance, Different Song: A Retrospective Analysis of Gender in Disney Feature Animation"

Tidwell, Alexandria Nicole (2013) "Players: Gender and Sexuality in the Universe of Don DeLillo"