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School of Humanities

Study with us: explore complex ideas, universal concepts, and expression

The School of Humanities is comprised of the major disciplines of English, History, Philosophy and Religion. In other words, we are the school that examines and celebrates our capacity for expression, empathy, and critical evaluation. Offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees, our programs study the past, present and future of human culture in order to learn more about ourselves and our world. Thanks to the training they receive in our classes, students who major in the humanities go on to work in a diverse and exciting field of professional and academic careers.

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Dr. Erika Luckert

Erika Luckert

Erika Luckert is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Composition. Her research focuses on writing pedagogies at the intersection of composition and creative writing, with an emphasis on social and collaborative practice. Currently, she is at work on a study of writing workshops, drawing on interviews and classroom observations of teachers across the US. Erika's recent publications include articles in Pedagogy, JAEPL, the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, and Writing on the Edge, as well as poems in Room Magazine, South Carolina Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

Dr. Laura Mammina

Laura Mammina

Dr. Laura Mammina studies the nineteenth-century United States, examining gender history, African American History, the history of slavery and emancipation, and civilian-military relations during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is an incoming assistant professor of History and Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. Prior to her position at the University of Southern Mississippi, she held an academic appointment at the University of Houston-Victoria. Her current book manuscript, War on the Home Front, examines the ways in which southern civilians shaped Federal military policy. It is under advance contract with the University of North Carolina Press.

Dr. Christopher Spaide

Christopher Spaide

Christopher Spaide, an Assistant Professor of English, focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. His current project, Lyric Togetherness, examines the plural pronouns and collective voices of American poetry from 1945 to today. His essays, reviews, and poems have appeared in American Literary History, ELH, The Nation, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Yale Review. He has received fellowships from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, the Harvard Society of Fellows, the James Merrill House, and the Keasbey Foundation; for his academic writing and criticism, he has received prizes from Post45 and The Sewanee Review. Currently, he serves as the Secretary for The Wallace Stevens Society.

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Our Programs

The School of Humanities offers innovative and challenging undergraduate and graduate programs in our disciplines, including programs in secondary education in English and social studies/history.

Our Research

60+Award Winning Faculty, Publishing both Scholarly and Creative work

40+ Scholarships and Awards for Academic Achievement

10+Travel Awards for Undergraduate and Graduate Research

The School of Humanities offers a range of research and creative opportunities for study. The philosophy program offers a Pre-Law emphasis degree ideal for students interested in Law School. The English program, with its emphasis in literary history and analysis, also houses a nationally recognized creative writing program. History offers a full range of history courses along with dynamic studies in war and society, part of the acclaimed Dale Center for the Study of War and Society. Students pursuing secondary education in English or Social Studies/History take part in school-based learning experiences with practicing teachers and graduates of our programs.

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