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Contact

Email: rashell.spears@jsums.edu

Phone: 601.979.5859

Office Location: Dollye M.E, Robinson Liberal Arts Building, Office 431

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RaShell Smith-Spears, PhD

Graduate Coordinator & Professor of English

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Biography

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Education

  • Ph.D., The University of Missouri, Columbia, English, 2005
  • M.F.A. University of Memphis, Creative Writing, 1999
  • M.A. University of Memphis, English, 1998
  • B.A. Spelman College, English, 1997

Research Interests

  • African American Literature
  • 19th Century Literature
  • Identity Politics
  • Popular Culture Studies
  • Creative Writing

Recent Publications

  • “Close Quarters”, Black Lives Still Matter. Abiodun Oyewole, Ed. New York: 2LeafPress (forthcoming 2017)
  • "Rooted”, “How I Became Superwoman” Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, Bianca Lynne Spriggs and Jeremy Paden, Ed. (2017)
  • “(In)Visible Messages: Patriarchy in Tyler Perry’s Madea Films”.  Shorter, Shavonne and Shanna L. Smith.  Brian Johnson, Ed. The Problematic Tyler Perry.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.

Courses Taught

  • Composition I
  • Composition II
  • Black Authors
  • The Novel
  • Seminar on Black Authors, Graduate-Level
  • African American Literature, Graduate-Level
  • Creative Writing Seminar, Graduate-Level
  • Comparative Literature, Graduate-Level