Ben McClelland

Ben McClelland is Professor and Schillig Chair of English at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught courses in literature and writing for twenty-six years. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Indiana University, where he wrote a dissertation on William Faulkner s fiction. He also completed post-doctoral study at the University of Pittsburgh in composition and at Carnegie Mellon University in rhetoric. He developed professional credentials in the area of nonfiction and life...See more

Ben McClelland is Professor and Schillig Chair of English at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught courses in literature and writing for twenty-six years. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Indiana University, where he wrote a dissertation on William Faulkner s fiction. He also completed post-doctoral study at the University of Pittsburgh in composition and at Carnegie Mellon University in rhetoric. He developed professional credentials in the area of nonfiction and life narrative writing by conducting research into the history, theory, and current place of nonfiction prose in English studies. In addition to articles and editions, he has written two professional books and a nonfiction memoir, "Soldier s Son," which was published by the University Press of Mississippi in March 2004, as a Willie Morris Book in Memoir and Biography. Since 2004 he has offered undergraduate and graduate courses in nonfiction writing." See less