Shari Hodges Holt
Instructional Assistant Professor of English
Phone Number: (662)915-4765
Email: shodges@olemiss.edu
http://home.olemiss.edu/~shodges/index.html

Key Words:

Research Description: Film adaptations as critical "readings" of literary texts; pedagogical implications of using popular culture appropriations (including film adaptations, music, comics, television) of literary texts in the interpretation of literature. Nineteenth-century British novelists (particularly Dickens, Ouida, Stoker, the Brontes, and Austen); Gothic literature; postcolonial and feminist revisions of nineteenth-century Gothic texts. Computer technology in composition and literature classes; designing web-enhanced and online courses. Shakespeare in performance; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (historical reconstruction in London, England). Programs in English Studies Abroad (England, Scotland, and Ireland).

Honors Theses:

Buckley, Kate (2016) The Evolution of the Vampire "Other": Symbols of Difference from Folklore to Millennial Literature. (full text)