Professional Bio
Matthew Little received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1972, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1975. He has taught at Mississippi State since 1976. In the 1995-96 academic year he served as Acting Department Head, and after a year off for good behavior he became Department Head in July of 1997, serving in that capacity until July of 2004. He was once a decent scholar, with articles on the likes of Henry James, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and William Faulkner. He is now attempting to re-engage, writing on the James brothers (Henry and William, not Frank and Jesse), R.W. Emerson, and José Donoso. He teaches the course Principles of Legal Writing every spring.
Education:
Ph.D. 1975 University of Chicago
M.A. 1972 University of Chicago
B.A. 1971 University of California at Berkeley
Teaching Interests:
American literature
Legal writing
Courses:
- American Literature of 1920s
- Mark Twain and Henry James
- Literature from the Civil War to 1914: Extremes of Realism
- American Literature 1860-1900: Late Romanticism to Early Modernism
- American Literature, Civil War to 1914
- American Literature to the Civil War
- U.S. Literature of the 1960s
