Garry Howell, M.A.

Garry Howell is an Adjunct Professor of English in the Department of English and World Languages. He graduated from Texas Southern University with an MA in English and Comparative Literature, where he won the COLLABS award for “Graduate Student of the Year” and served as “Visiting Professor of English.” He is the author of the forthcoming “Literary Jazz: Metonymy, Motif, Syntax, and African-American Narrative.” Mr. Howell has lectured on English Composition I and II, Introduction to Literature, American Literature: Beginnings to 1865, African American Literature: Beginnings Through the Harlem Renaissance (1937), and World Literature: Ancient Mediterranean Through 1535. Mr. Howell has previously served as the Co-Editor of The Maroon Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume I; Editorial Assistant and Board Member of Caribbean Vistas Journal: Critiques of Caribbean Arts and Culture, Volumes I and II; and Editorial Assistant for The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers, Volumes I and II.

Area of Expertise

American Literature, African-American Literature, Caribbean Culture and Literature, and Southern Literature. His primary points of focus are the “Age of Richard Wright,” “The Harlem Renaissance,” “The Southern Renaissance,” and “Literary Jazz.”