Mike Odom (he/him)

Mike Odom received his B.A. in English Language and Literature from Mississippi State University in 1996 and attended graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focusing on American fiction between 1870 and the present day, the literature of the southern United States, African-American literature, postmodernism, and narratology.  He started teaching in the English Department as a TA and has been a member of the Specialized Faculty at the U of I since 2003. He has served as the Specialized Faculty Assistant Director of Rhetoric, and he is currently serving as a Steward for the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition.