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Recent Faculty Awards and Books
Jen Andrella鈥檚 first book When the War Raged On: Montana Territory, Native Nations, and the Struggle over Reconstruction in the West is forthcoming with University of Nebraska Press.
Angela Ball named the 2026 College of Arts & Sciences Creative Researcher of the Year.
Angela Ball published (Routledge, 2025) and a new book of poems entitled (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026)
Jennifer Brewington named the 2026 College of Arts & Sciences Teaching-Track Teacher of the Year.
Jennifer Brewington was awarded a Summer Grant for the Improvement of Instruction in 2025.
Douglas Bristol won USM鈥檚 Excellence in Online Teaching Award in 2026.
Amy Carey was awarded a Summer Grant for the Improvement of Instruction in 2026.
Darcie Conrad, Assistant to the Director of the School of Humanities, was awarded the 2026 Jessie H. Morrison Award for Staff Excellence.
Olivia Clare Friedman鈥檚 book of poems was published by LSU Press in 2025.
Rachael Fowler鈥檚 novel Whale Bones is under contract and forthcoming with Ricochet Editions at University of Southern California.
Monika Gehlawat鈥檚 second monograph Triptych: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary American Novel is forthcoming with the University of Iowa鈥檚 New American Canon Series in fall 2027. She also held the Charles Moorman Distinguished Professorship (2023-2025)
Kevin Greene won the 2026 College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Service Award.
Max Grivno is the Principal Investigator of the Special History for Fort Rosalie in Natchez, Mississippi.
Laura Mammina鈥檚 monograph Hard Women, Hard War: How Southern Women Shaped U.S. Policy during the Civil War is forthcoming with the University of Georgia Press.
Cynthia Myles won the 2026 College of Arts & Sciences Award for Staff Service in Student Advising.
Leah Parker鈥檚 book was published in August 2025 by University of Michigan Press. She is also the 2025 recipient of the Aubrey Keith Lucas and Ella Ginn Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence Award.
Joe Peterson named the 2026 College of Arts & Sciences Tenure-Track Teacher of the Year.
Jenny Peterson received a Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American poets in 2025 and serves as the Poet Laureate of Hattiesburg. Her poetry collection Degenerate Era of an Expanding Universe will be published with Belle Pointe Press in summer 2026.
Chris Spaide won an Advancing Teaching Excellence Grant from the Office of the Provost (2026) and received a Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship (2026-2027) to spend four weeks at Harvard鈥檚 rare-books library.
Heather Stur named the 2026 College of Arts & Sciences Mentor of the Year for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Eric Tribunella published hi smonograph with Routledge Press in 2026.
Andrew Wiest won the Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2026.
Journals
is the flagship literary journal of the Center for Writers. Since 1972, the journal has published award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Mississippi Review reaches an international audience, publishes two printed issues a year, runs an annual contest, and offers invaluable editorial experience to graduate students at USM. Previous editors include Angela Ball, Frederick Barthelme, Steven Barthelme, Adam Clay, Rie Fortenberry, Julia Johnson, Andrew Milward, and Gordon Weaver.
Published by 91少女集中营 College of Arts and Sciences since 1962, (SoQ) is a scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts and culture. It is available through Project MUSE. The SoQ defines "the arts" broadly, including literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, theatre, film, and popular culture. We also publish studies of Southern culture informed by such disciplines as English, history, film studies, folklore, anthropology, political science, and social geography. Included with its studies of the South, the SoQ incorporates the Caribbean basin and the larger Global South in its contents. The SoQ brings scholarly articles, cutting edge interviews, archival documents with commentary, photo essays, portfolios, and book reviews to subscribers all over the world.
Young Authors Academy
The Young Authors Academy is an in-person creative writing camp for kids hosted by the Center for Writers every summer. The camp includes interactive writing activities, daily on-campus walking field trips, a printed anthology featuring the work of each camper, and a showcase reading on the last day of camp. This opportunity offers young writers in the region a chance to develop their creative skills, learn about multiple disciplines on USM鈥檚 campus, and publicly present their work. This camp also offers summer employment and valuable creative writing teaching experience to graduate students in English at USM. More information on each year鈥檚 camp can be found on the YAA website: .