Graduate Student News

Doctoral Student Earns Competitive Summer Fellowship

English student Sarah Heying granted access to unique library collection at Texas A&M FEBRUARY 10, 2019 BY JUSTIN WHITMORE University of Mississippi doctoral student Sarah Heying has earned a highly competitive fellowship that will send her to Texas A&M University this summer to participate...

Doctoral Candidate Earns Fellowship to Continue Literary Research

Amber Hodge to continue dissertation work at University of Virginia’s academic libraries JANUARY 10, 2019 BY MICHAEL NEWSOM University of Mississippi doctoral candidate Amber Hodge has received a Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature, which funds a month of research at...

Susie Penman, the university’s first graduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Expression program, visits the Isle of Man in Scotland.

First Student Graduates in MFA in Documentary Expression Program

Susie Penman channels personal experiences with crime and punishment into revealing films OCTOBER 22, 2018 BY REBECCA LAUCK CLEARY Support from fellow students and faculty proved invaluable for Susie Penman, the first graduate in the Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Expression program at the...

MFA Ceramics Student Selected to Represent UM in China

OCTOBER 9, 2019 BY Olivia Whittington This October MFA ceramics student William McKinney is representing the University of Mississippi at the Taoxichuan Creative Fair in Jingdezhen, China. Selected by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, McKinney is one of seven students chosen to...

THE DM: Graduate Student Debuts Poetry Collection at Local Barbershop

OCTOBER 1, 2018 | BY KAITLYN SISCO for The Daily Mississippian Julian Randall, a poet and master’s student of English, read from his debut book of poetry, “Refuse,” at Goolsby’s Hair World on Saturday night. Though a barbershop might seem like an odd place for a poetry reading, organizers said...