University of Mississippi

Faculty Member, Department of English / MFA program in creative writing

Associate Professor

College of Liberal Arts

About

Dr. Martyn Bone is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. He was previously lecturer in American studies at the University of Nottingham, England (2002-2003), before becoming assistant and then associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2003-2010).

He is the author of _The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction_ (Louisiana State University Press, 2005) and the editor of _Perspectives on Barry Hannah_ (University Press of Mississippi, 2007). He has published articles in _American Literature_, _Comparative American Studies_, _Journal of American Studies_, _Mississippi Quarterly_, and other journals.

He is currently writing about literary representations of the U.S. South in transnational contexts (with a particular focus on migrant labor) by authors including Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Erna Brodber, Russell Banks, and Cynthia Shearer.

He is also co-editing three books deriving from the international, interdisciplinary research project "Understanding the South, Understanding Modern America" (2008-2010). The project was a collaborative venture between Copenhagen and the University of Manchester (England), the University of Florida (U.S.), and the University of Cambridge (England):
http://arts.stage.manchester.ac.uk/southnetwork/

He serves on the executive council of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL), and is the founding editor of the SSSL-sponsored H-Net discussion network H-Southern-Lit: http://www.h-net.org/~southlit/.
He has also been the vice-president of the Danish Association for American Studies.

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