Millsaps College English Department

04/08/2026

Hey everyone! Here is a reminder about Eric Griffin's retirement party this May 2nd at 1805 Devine St, Jackson MS! We'll be celebrating from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm with food and beverages provided. We'll be sure to send details of a rain location the week of, in case of inclement weather.

We are also compiling a small booklet of well wishes and favorite memories of Eric! If you'd like to have a message included, please email [email protected] by April 17th.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out!

12/30/2025

Alumni and Friends of the Millsaps English Department:

Please join us this May 2nd, 2026 at 5 pm in Jackson to celebrate the retirement of Dr. Eric Griffin after his 28 years at Millsaps College. All of his students, colleagues, friends, and compadres are invited to attend an evening of music, fun, drinks, and snacks celebrating the wonderful man that so many of us know as "Griff." If you'd like to offer some remarks, let us know—and feel free to send any questions to Michael Pickard at [email protected] and/or Alex Melnick at [email protected]. Additional details coming soon!

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/GExrB9qhP48r2qHC9.

09/10/2024

Students from Dr. Eric Griffin’s English class, Baseball and American Memory, joined by Millsaps Greek and Roman Studies colleague Dr. Michael Gleason, take in the very last home game of the Mississippi Braves. A sad day for Jackson, but a perfect late-summer day for baseball.

03/13/2023

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04/21/2022

Today. April 21. 5:30. Millsaps CC McMullen Lecture Hall. Come hear Henry Adam Svec read from his genre-defying interdisciplinary "novel," Life is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs! It's smart, funny, and intellectually engaging. You'll love it!

This experimental and genre-defying book mixes the adventurous energies of Stompin’ Tom, and the searing intensity of Elizabeth Smart and Chris Kraus.

04/12/2022

Drs. John Yargo (Millsaps '07) and Eric Griffin (Millsaps English Department Chair) at the 2022 Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Jacksonville, FL. Yargo, who successfully defended his dissertation last month, presented in the annual NEXTGENPLEN, a special plenary session honoring the work of up-and-coming scholars. His paper, entitled "Did Environmental Catastrophe Have a Renaissance?", offered an innovative eco-critical reading of The Tempest.

11/22/2021

'You really did change my life,' a tearful Adele told her middle-school English teacher, who surprised her in the middle of a televised concert.

11/19/2020

TONIGHT AT NEW STAGE THEATER! Hear Millsaps alumna Jaclyn Bethany's original play, Under the Lantern Lit Sky, read be a terrific cast. Please join us there!

This weekly virtual experience is a project of the new Thursday Night Plays, Conversations & Cocktail with New Stage Theatre Series that debuted in September! Each Thursday night, New Stage will feature either a new play reading or a NST Dialogue event featuring guest artists and guest panelists. Th...

11/16/2020

We were delighted to hear Malcolm White's MPB interview with former English Major Chelsea Lovitt (2008), on the series of Mississippi Arts grants that led to the completion of her first album, You Had Your Cake, Now Lie In It. Congratulations, Chels. We always knew you had it!

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08/01/2020

So what can you do with a Millsaps English degree? Check out this article in Colorado Lawyer by April Hendricks (Class of 2009). Law school is only one of the fields in which our majors commonly excel. If you have an interest in studying law, let us point you in the right direction!

Description: Vol. 49, No. 8 Colorado Lawyer, the official publication of the Colorado Bar Association, serves as an informational and educational resource to improve the practice of law. Cover photo by Jeffrey Weeks.

06/07/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/books/charles-dickens-death-anniversary-150-years.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR318E8g2wpTq2_S_280F1haQx7cPnVd6tJVCN3gXwWioCvYwXSPlK5DTCQ

The outpouring of grief after the novelist’s death, The Times wrote, was no surprise, since his books — “more or less associated with the events of our lives” — had touched people so profoundly.