Assistant Professor of English

OFFICE: Painter Hall 211B
EMAIL: mranderson@muw.edu
PHONE: 662-329-7166

About Dr. Anderson

BA, English, Thomas Moore College
MA and PhD, English, University of Mississippi

Areas of Specialization

19th and 20th Century American Literature, Horror

Selected Publications

• Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (co-authored with Lisa Kröger). Quirk Books. 2022.
• Monster, She Wrote: The Women who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (co-authored with Lisa Kröger). Quirk Books. 2019.
• Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison. University of Tennessee Press. 2013.
• Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House (Essay collection co-edited with Jill E. Anderson). Bloomsbury Academic. 2020.
• Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences (Essay collection co-edited with Lisa Kröger). Routledge. 2016.
• The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities. (Essay collection co-edited with Lisa Kröger) University of Delaware Press. 2013.