Kathryn McKee
Kathryn McKee
Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
McMullan Professor of Southern Studies
Professor of English
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.