Carey professors, graduates attend Philological Association meeting
William Carey University professors and graduates from the Department of Language and Literature attended the 2017 Mississippi Philological Association meeting held Feb. 10-11 on the campus of the Mississippi Valley State University.
Dr. Ernest R. Pinson read his essay titled "Innovative Techniques by Modern Immigrant Writers." Dr. Lorie Watkins Massey outlined potential classroom uses of the Digital Yoknapatawpha project in an essay titled "The Walking Dead: Mapping Digital Yoknapatawpha." Watkins Massey is also editor of "Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association," an academic journal that publishes select conference papers each year.
Laura Scovel, who graduated from Carey in May 2016 and is now a graduate student in the Master of Arts in English program, attended the meeting. Scovel also works as records specialist and Veterans Administration certifying official at WCU. Her parents are Harry and Carol Scovel of Wiggins. Two Carey graduates, Amanda Ringer and Joseph Goss also attended. Ringer, the daughter of David and Susan Ringer of Florence, works as an assistant professor of history and political science at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama. Goss is a fourth-grade teacher at Union Baptist Academy in Caesar. His parents are Chad and Lisa Goss of Picayune.