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New FacultyIn fall 2008, the Missouri English Department welcomes two new additions to its faculty. Sheri-Marie Harrison specializes in Carribean literature, popular culture, film, cultural studies, and feminist and queer theories. She received her B.A. in English from the University of the West Indies, Mona (2000), and her M.A. (2003) and PhD (2008) from the University of Miami. She is currently working on a book manuscript, " Nationalism and Self-Representation: Negotiating Sovereignty in Jamaican Cultural Landscapes." She is the Caribbean bibliographer for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and has edited work in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. She has also presented her research at several national and international conferences. E.J. Levy's essays and articles have appeared in many places, including Best American Essays 2005, The Pushcart Prize XXI: Best of the Small Presses, and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (Simon & Schuster, 2007), as well as in The Missouri Review, Orion, Out, Salmagundi, and The Nation; Writer's Digest named her among their list of "Twenty-Five Nonfiction Writers To Watch" in the new millennium. Her fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Gettysburg Review, North American Review, and two of her stories were named Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories 2003 and 2004. She has received a number of national awards for her fiction and nonfiction, including a Margaret Bridgman Scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Michener Fellowship, a Loft-McKnight Fellowship, and a Lambda Literary Award for her anthology, Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers (Avon, 1995). She earned an MFA from Ohio State University in 2002 and a BA in History from Yale.
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