MA Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award in Southern Studies at University of Mississippi: Lily-Pearl Benn’s testimony
As the deadline for BAAS’s MA Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award in Southern Studies at University of Mississippi nears, read the testimony from Lily-Pearl Benn about her time at the University of Mississippi. I first heard about the BAAS award via email when I was an undergraduate in English and American Literature and Culture at the University of Hull. To complete an MA and have it funded through invaluable work experience in such an interesting place seemed a dream! I was surprised and over the moon when I got the place. I had never heard of an MA in Southern Studies before, but it is similar to the American Studies component of my undergraduate degree in its framework and interdisciplinary nature, just more ‘zoomed in’. This is not to say the programme isn’t expansive: the American South encompasses every kind of place, from vast cities like Atlanta to the Appalachian mountains […]