Education

• Ph.D. 2001 Louisiana State University
• M.A. 1996 Mississippi College
• B.A. 1990 University of Mississippi

Teaching Interests

• Southern studies
• U.S. literature since 1900
• Film

Ted Atkinson joined the MSU faculty in 2009 and has served as editor of Mississippi Quarterly since 2012. His areas of research and teaching interest include southern studies, modern and contemporary U.S. literature and culture, film studies, and William Faulkner. Atkinson’s publications include a book, Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics (University of Georgia Press, 2006) and several journal articles and contributions to edited collections. His current book project is a cultural history of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

• Faulkner and the Great DepressionFaulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2006). Link to UGA Press author’s page.

• Labor." Keywords for Southern Studies. (University of Georgia Press, 2016)
• "Natasha Trethewey’s Joe Christmas and the Reconstruction of Mississippi Nativity." Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2013. (University Press of Mississippi, 2016)
• "Long Faulkner: Charting Legacy on a Civil Rights Continuum." Fifty Years after Faulkner: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2012 (University Press of Mississippi, 2016)
• "Faulkner on the Mississippi: Popular Currents of Realism in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem." Southern Quarterly 52.3 (2015): 46-62.

• President, William Faulkner Society, 2015-2018
• Executive Committee Member, MLA Southern United States Forum
• Member, Modern Language Association
• Member, Society for the Study of Southern Literature
• Member, Southern American Studies Association
• Member, Board of Governors, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters