William L. Giles Distinguished Professor, English
E-mail address: ndh1@Ra.Msstate.Edu
Website: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/Hargrove.html
Dr. Nancy D. Hargrove is Professor of English and William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University. She received a B.A. degree from Agnes Scott College, an M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Her areas of specialization are 20th Century American and British Poetry, 20th Century Drama (American, British, and Continental), 20th Century Southern Literature, and American Literature of the 1920s. She is the author of two books, Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (1978) and The Journey Toward Ariel: Sylvia Plath’s Poetry of 1956-1959 (1994), over forty essays in books and scholarly journals on the works of Eliot, Plath, Yeats, Faulkner, Welty, Shakespeare, and others, and over one hundred paper presentations. She is currently writing a book on Eliot’s 1910-1911 year in Paris. She is the recipient of five Fulbright grants – a student grant to France (1963-4), a Junior Lectureship to France (1976-7), Senior Lectureships to Belgium (1984-5) and to Sweden (1992), and a Distinguished Chair Award to Austria (2005-6) – as well as numerous awards, including the MSU Outstanding Honors Faculty Award, the MSU Outstanding Teaching Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award from the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, the MSU Outstanding Faculty Award, the Grisham Master Teacher Award, the Outstanding Humanist Award, and the CASE Mississippi Professor of the Year Award. Her hobbies are tennis and travelling.
