Literatures of the Americas

This area of study reflects the department’s strengths in many literary traditions of the Americas. Graduate students concentrating in this area will have opportunities to examine the Americas in relation to differing concepts of history, citizenship, nation, region and genre. Long a standout graduate program in Southern literature, we currently house forward-thinking faculty who conceive of the South in broad terms, encompassing an array of genres, media, and ethnic traditions, as well as a new geographic sense of the region that includes the Caribbean.

Personnel


LeAnne Howe

Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature


Cody Marrs

Professor


Ron Miller

Emeritus Professor


Éric Morales-Franceschini

Associate Professor


Hugh Ruppersburg

Emeritus Univ. Professor of English

Research Spotlight


Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies

Eighteenth-century studies at UGA emphasizes a variety of literary and conceptual approaches to the period, with particular strengths in feminist scholarship, science and literature, interdisciplinary studies, literary history, material culture, and transatlantic print culture.


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