
Contact Information
608 S Wright; M/C 718
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
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 late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American fiction, the literature of the southern United States, African-American literature, and narratology. He has been a member of the Specialized Faculty at the U of I since 2003, and including his years as a Teaching Assistant in the graduate program, he has a combined 26 years of post-secondary teaching experience. He has recently served as the Specialized Faculty Assistant Director of Rhetoric and as the President of the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition.
Courses Taught
ENGL 109: Intro to Fiction
ENGL 116: Intro to American Literature
ENGL 200: Intro to the Study of Literature and Culture
ENGL 251: American Novel Since 1914
ENGL 256: Survey of American Lit II
ENGL 259/AFRO 259/CWL 259: Afro-American Literature I
ENGL 300: Faulkner and the American South
RHET 101: Principles of Writing
RHET 102: Principles of Research
RHET 105: Writing and Research
RHET 233: Advanced Rhetoric and Composition