COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. Thomas Richardson, who currently serves as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Mississippi University for Women, will keynote the university’s graduation ceremonies Saturday, May 5 in Rent Auditorium, Whitfield Hall. Approximately 400 degrees are to be conferred.
Conferring of degrees for graduates of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education and the College of Business and Professional Studies will start at 10 a.m. Conferring of degrees for graduates of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences will start at 2 p.m.
Richardson, professor of English, also holds the Eudora Welty Chair in the Humanities. In his 30 years at The W, he has held a variety of positions, including head of the Division of Humanities and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to The W, he taught English at North Carolina State University and at Campbell University, where he also served as department head and held the Mabel Powell Chair.
Richardson earned his undergraduate degree in English from Davidson College and his M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Duke University. He did post-graduate study at the University of Edinburgh on a fellowship from the St. Andrews Society of New York and at Trinity College, Dublin, on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship.
Dr. Richardson’s literary specialty is Scottish literature; he has published widely in the field and has presented his research at numerous international conferences. His publications include a two-volume edition of James Hogg’s Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, published by Edinburgh University Press, and a biographical essay on John Gibson Lockhart for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His honors include the first Glasgow Herald Visiting Fellowship to the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and the Robert Bruce Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scottish Studies from Old Dominion University’s Scottish Studies Center.
At the end of June, Richardson will step down as provost to continue a long-term research project while on sabbatical next spring. He will serve as series editor for the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart, to be published by Edinburgh University Press.
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April 24, 2018
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