{"id":164430,"date":"2026-07-22T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=164430"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:37:18","slug":"free-mississippi-literature-community-class-will-be-offered-by-um-faculty-laureate-beth-ann-fennelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/free-mississippi-literature-community-class-will-be-offered-by-um-faculty-laureate-beth-ann-fennelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Mississippi Literature Community Class Will Be Offered by UM Faculty Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beth Ann Fennelly<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of English and four-time teaching award winner, has a mission to get more Mississippians reading and writing Mississippi stories. She has been chosen as a 2026\u20132028 <strong>University of Mississippi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mississippilab.org\/faculty-laureates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faculty Laureate<\/a><\/strong>, a project of <strong>The Mississippi Lab<\/strong>, which is supported by the Office of the Provost and Underwritten by the <strong>Dr. Daniel W. Jones Endowment for Faculty Support<\/strong>.<strong> <\/strong>She will teach a free weekly Mississippi Literature class for the LOU community, each week focusing on different Mississippi authors, in order to shine a light on Mississippi\u2019s out-sized contribution to our nation\u2019s literary output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you a resident of Lafayette Country who loves to read? Would you like to learn more about Mississippi literature? If so, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbethannfennelly.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBEwa3BvMm56eUJSckhxbDNyYnNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4VqR6uD6c4ZxYgjnyo_18mKqLXd7wky0cepm4ayn2kXSEuGC97jYDFturvDQ_aem___YNgVvdcoKTSKZsva7gBA&amp;h=AUBplPLqVJmvQzSD0UMPu2wmYLMqsFhl9vNOv1InujX990yXNl8mF-0VEDSEfJrB2Fw-tLZrjKjxjKu16P5pHe7a8BWkyf452IzkIg23VerBnsp2RqoKJwc5zWK6NgWeHeQIpFVGxTxDSW7diS9oH6q_dNt0qm_7aTBMXw&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AUADDJgTGLGXjyp_qcNzevUnfMDfVc99lIG3TuzWVmVjwqP2IJw4JndI5PYxwY23gJXwrSTv2n-fD-htN6W9DXCTN64yMmbLsnXtUd8CpPsjEBa2b4hKP68_ommfQrxpex1pWfj-QAU6HOFggVCigwBbWOpR_M8oE057WfZVnCYm9AdxxARxIHg_Sqq9GIWrbZ4k1Mrqlv3MZirYKrovFaOlzPWWZfqRBi9l&amp;c[1]=AUDdlrUdJ9gC7jlckrKUY2qgxY7DNW0v7hFdgBeA9cIntkPvV8x0y8qh5QcrmbxFpNCkonmYP6NNknLKIXaDW6sOZA9fPmW5dNiF3gOIWEuBdv77pXcSS-nIGR3xsfuyLs8WxG_aaNQwStidmCMYpQfnHby7xJ9l8sYCEFvdvHb9xvf7UoY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bethannfennelly.com<\/a>\u00a0for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethannfennelly.com\/ms-lit-community-class\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bethannfennelly.com\/ms-lit-community-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info on this free 9-week class<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Ann Fennelly, Distinguished Professor of English and four-time teaching award winner, has a mission to get more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":164431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[3602,27145,35412,4906,5,7067,4,33657,655],"class_list":["post-164430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-beth-ann-fennelly","tag-dr-daniel-w-jones-endowment-for-faculty-support","tag-faculty-laureate","tag-literature","tag-mississippi","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-the-mississippi-lab","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SMgraphic-FINAL.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164497,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164430\/revisions\/164497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}