Kathryn McKee

Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, McMullan Professor of Southern Studies, and Professor of English

Email:
kmckee@olemiss.edu
Office Location:
209 Barnard Observatory
Phone:
662-915-3372

I am the Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, McMullan Professor of Southern Studies, and Professor of English.

Research Interests

American literature, women writers, postbellum U.S. South, film, humor studies

Biography

Kathryn McKee is the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and McMullan Professor of Southern Studies and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She has a B.A. from Centre College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South (2019) and co-editor with Deborah Barker of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (2011). She teaches American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specializing in postbellum writing of the U.S. South.

Publications

2019, LSU Press

Reading Reconstruction

Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South

From the publisher:

Kathryn B. McKee’s Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849–1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her fiction and nonfiction works. McKee reveals conflicts in Bonner’s writing as her newfound feminism clashes with her resurgent racism, two forces widely prevalent and persistently oppositional throughout the late nineteenth century

American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary

"Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies"
(a special issue of the journal American Literature)