Nicholas Gorrell - Department of English

Education
M.A. 2006, Utah State University Ph.D 2017, University of Mississippi
Academic Summary
Nick Gorrell teaches courses in literature and composition. His research interests are centered around Southern music traditions, particularly blues and country, and their interactions with one another and influences on literature.
Select Publications
- 鈥溾楢ll We Know is Blues!鈥: The Persistence of the Blues in Southern African American Culture.鈥 Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1, March 2025, pp. 69鈥94.
- "Son House: Bluesman, Preacher, Folk Intellectual." Arkansas Review 45.1 (Spring 2014): 3-18.
