Degrees Held
B.S., 1979, U.S. Air Force Academy
M.A., 1985, Colorado State University
Ph.D., 1995, Rutgers University
Academic Summary
Verner D. Mitchell arrived at The University of Memphis in 1999 after a 20-year career in the US Air Force. He teaches courses in American literature and culture and is particularly interested in the Harlem Renaissance writers Helene Johnson and Dorothy West.
Courses Taught
2201 Literary Heritage
4371 African American Literature
7323 American Literature to 1865
7324 American Literature 1865 to 1914
Major Publications
- “Accommodation and Resistance in Lt. Henry Ossian Flippers’ The Colored Cadet at West Point (1878).” War, Literature and the Arts 10.1 (Spring/Summer 98): 73-90.
- “David Walker, Rights, and Liberties.” Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities. Ed. C. James Trotman. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002. 94-107.
- This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Edited with an Introduction. Amherst: U of Massachusetts Press. December 2000.
- Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings by Dorothy West, 1930-1950. Amherst: U of Mass. P, 2005. With Cynthia Davis.
