Allison Wiltshire
Allison Wiltshire
PhD in English, University of Missouri-Columbia (In Progress)
MA in English, Mississippi State University (2018)
BA in English, Mississippi State University (2016)
Areas of Study
- African Diaspora Studies
Allison Wiltshire is a G. Ellsworth Huggins Fellow, PhD candidate, and graduate instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Wiltshire focuses her scholarship on literature of the African diaspora. Predominantly, she examines themes of race, twinship, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, and Afropolitanism in contemporary African and African American works. Wiltshire received her MA and BA from Mississippi State University and began her doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2019.
G. Ellsworth Huggins Fellowship—University of Missouri
Gill Porter Award for Outstanding Teaching of Literature—University of Missouri
English Department Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Fellowship—University of Missouri
English Department Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden English Fellowship—University of Missouri
English Department English Graduate Fellowship—University of Missouri
Howell Gwin Scholarship—Mississippi State University
Scholar Athlete—Northeast Mississippi Community College
Hall of Fame-- Northeast Mississippi Community College
(Master’s Thesis) The Split Gaze of Refraction: Racial Passing in the Works of Helen Oyeyemi and Zoë Wicomb, Mississippi State University, 2018.