Palmer, William

Dr. William C. Palmer joined the Huntingdon faculty in fall 2023 after teaching as a visiting assistant professor of English at Bucknell University. He also served as a teaching assistant at the University of Mississippi and Auburn University. His specialties are race and literature, music and literature, sound studies, and modernism.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• “‘The Southern Crossing the Dog’: Remaking the World from W. C. Handy’s Mississippi Delta” (under consideration)
• “‘A Strong, Brown God’: T.S. Eliot’s Mississippi River Exploration of the White Atlantic,” in Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, January 2021
• “‘It’s mahself”: Sounding Black Modernity through Claude McKay’s Banjo” (under consideration)
• “Songs of the South,” co-written with Erich Nunn, in The Routledge History of the American South, May 2019

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• “Timefulness and Now: 75 Years of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” Review, in South: A Scholarly Journal, Spring 2017
• “Emerging Scholars in Southern Studies,” in The Newsletter for the Society of the Study of Southern Literature, Volume 50, Issue 1, July 2016

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Noel Polk Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Summer 2022
• Dissertation Fellowship, University of Mississippi, Spring 2022
• Mary Moody Emerson Almanacks Archive Research Assistantship, NEH, Summer 2017
• Peter Aschoff Prize, The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, May 2017
• Harold J. Kendis PhD Fellowship, University of Mississippi, 2016
• Honors Fellowship, University of Mississippi, 2016
• Outstanding Master’s Student, Auburn University Graduate Council, 2016
• Master of Arts Fellowship, Auburn University, 2014