Kathryn McKee
McMullan Professor of Southern Studies and Professor of English
Phone Number: (662)915-3372
Email: kmckee@olemiss.edu
https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/bio/katie-mckee/

Key Words: southern studies, American literature before 1900, Writing by Women, Humor Studies, Film Studies, Global South Studies

Research Description: Teaches and writes about United States literature and U.S. southern literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has particular interests in women�s writing, humor studies, film studies, and Global South studies. She is also the Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Honors Theses:

Smith, Evelyn Gates (2022) B is for Battleground: A Study and Personal Narrative of the Evolution of Classroom Politicization in the United States

Cooper, Hailey (2018) Haunted Mississippi: Ghosts, Identity, and Collective Identity (full text)

Ramsey, Allison Melissa (2016) Read Me: The Emergence of Female Voice in American Epistolary Fiction. (full text)

Hastings, Camden Story (2014) Suffering and Coping in the Novels of Anne Tyler. (full text)

Haadsma, Emily Louise (2010) "Not All Those Who Wander are Lost:" The Long Way Home in the Works of Lee Smith

Skelton, Elizabeth Claire (2010) "Gender Performance in the Fiction of Larry Brown"

Wright, Ashley Catherine (2010) "Living (or Not) Through "Legendizing" in Eudora Welty's Fiction"

Blasingame, Mallory Nicole (2009) "No Place for You, My Love: Negotiation of Home and Identity in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedight, The Optimist's Daughter, and The Bride of the Innisfallen"

Frederick, Anna Golson (2008) "Religious Allegory in Popular Literature of the Nineteenth Century"

Oliphant, Elizabeth L. (2008) "The Construction of Womanhood and Race in Novels by Caroline Lee Hentz and Augusta Jane Evans" (full text)

Schimmel, Ruth Fleming (2008) "Journeys of Self Development in Recent Female Southern Literature"

Hitt, Marty Marie (2007) "Across the Racial Divide: Women Writing Women in Select Post-Civil Rights Fiction"

Roebuck, Amy R (2003) "How the Song Goes: Southern Society Singing The Dual Lives of Women" (full text)

Schram, Whitney Virginia (2001) "A Study of the Role of Regionalism in the Work of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Wilma Dykeman"