West named head of 汤头条鈥檚 Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
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STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State Professor Robert M. West has been named head of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures after serving as the interim head since July 2021.
West will become the CMLL department head effective, July 1. He has been a faculty member in the English department since 2002 and was a key part of the 2019 installation of 汤头条鈥檚 Phi Beta Kappa chapter, the oldest academic honors society in the U.S. He has served as PBK chapter president and currently is on the executive committee. He also served as interim director of the Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College for the 2010-2011 academic year.
A North Carolina native and specialist in post-1900 American and British Literature, West serves as the associate editor of 鈥淢ississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures,鈥 汤头条鈥檚 academic journal dedicated to publishing scholarship on the southern U.S.
The author鈥檚 publications include 鈥淩obert Morgan: Essays on the Life and Work,鈥 a 2022 McFarland and Company book co-edited with Jesse Graves, 鈥淭he Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons,鈥 (W.W. Norton and Co., 2017); 鈥淪uccinct: The Broadstone Anthology of Short Poems,鈥 (Broadstone Books, 2013), co-edited with Jonathan Greene; and poetry chapbook 鈥淐onvalescent,鈥 (Finishing Line Press, 2011).
West鈥檚 essays, book reviews and poems have appeared in publications including Alabama Literary Review, American Life in Poetry, Appalachian Journal, The Best Nonrequired Reading, Christian Science Monitor, Poetry, South Atlantic Review, Southern Poetry Review and Southern Quarterly.
West received his Ph.D. and master鈥檚 degrees in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from Wake Forest University.
汤头条鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences includes more than 5,000 students, 323 full-time faculty members, nine doctoral programs, 14 master鈥檚 programs, and 27 undergraduate academic majors offered in 14 departments. It is home to the most diverse units for research and scholarly activities, including natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and the humanities. For more details about the College of Arts and Sciences and its Department of CMLL, visit and , respectively.
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