Nancy Grisham Anderson, associate professor of English and director of Actions Build Community, Auburn University--Montgomery

A Mississippi native, Nancy Grisham Anderson completed her undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) at Millsaps College (Jackson, Mississippi) and her graduate work in English at the University of Virginia. After teaching at Millsaps and in high schools in Germany and the United States, Anderson joined the English faculty at Auburn University--Montgomery, where she is currently an associate professor of English and director of Actions Build Community: The AUM-Taulbert Initiative (a community outreach program). Anderson has a particular interest in Southern literature, especially that of Alabama. She has published work about Lella Warren, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Mary Ward Brown, Harper Lee, Clifton Taulbert and Richard Marius. She has received the William J. Calvert and James Woodall awards from the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA) and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Distinguished Literary Scholarship. In 2008, she was a finalist for the Brock International Prize in Education.

Presentations by Nancy Anderson
“The Iron Finger of Love”:  The Journey of Clifton Taulbert from Mississippi's Black Belt

The World of Childhood: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Kite Runner

To Kill a Mockingbird:  Successes and Myths