David A. Davis
Assistant Professor of English

David A. Davis

Originally from Butler, Georgia, David A. Davis attended Emory University (B.A. 1997) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D. 2006). He taught at Wake Forest University before coming to Mercer in 2008.

He studies southern literature and culture, and he teaches courses in American literature and southern studies. He has published essays in African American Review, Southern Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, and other journals. He is currently editing a new edition of Victor Daly's novel Not Only War and writing a book on World War I and southern modernism.

He lives in Macon with his wife, Kris; two sons, Lucas and Ayden; and two little yellow dogs.

Groover 118
(478) 301-2358
davis_da@mercer.edu

Fall 2007

FYS 101: Identity and Ambiguity
ENG 265: American Literature
ENG 358: The Dirty South

Spring 2008

FYS 102: Civil Rights Memory
ENG/SST 236: Southern Foodways

ENG 301: Introduction to Literary Studies

Fall 2009

FYS 101: Topophilia
English 265: American Literature
English 357: Literature of the US South to 1900

Spring 2010

FYS 102: Civil Rights Memory
ENG/SST 236: Southern Justice
ENG 366: Modern Times