Dr. Grace Perry McCright

Education

Baylor University, Ph.D. English, 2026
Baylor University, M.A. English, 2022
East Texas Baptist University, B.A. English, 2020

Research Interests

Grace’s research interests include Twentieth Century American Literature, Women Writers, African-American Literature, Feminist and Womanist Theory.

Selected Publications

“Parting the Curtain: Modernism, Empathy, and Epiphany in Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples.” Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1, 2025, pp-27-46. 
“Rise up and tell it”: Go Tell It on the Mountain, #ChurchToo, and James Baldwin’s Christian Witnesses.” Christianity and Literature, vol. 73, no. 3, 2024, pp.417-432. 
“It was said she believed in evolution”: Ecogothic Time and Space in Eudora Welty’s “Moon Lake.” Eudora Welty Review, vol. 15, 2023, pp. 75-90. 
“The Reliability of the Senses: Sight, Sound, and Touch in Louise Gluck’s The Wild Iris.” The Sigma Tau Delta Review, vol. 17, Spring 2020, pp. 227-234. 

Courses Taught

ENG 1310: Writing and Academic Inquiry
ENG 1310: Writing and Academic Inquiry (Environmental Humanities), Honors Colloquium sessions on Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Marilynne Robinson
ENG 2310: American Literary Cultures (Environmental Humanities)

Awards

Robert G. Collmer Family Archival Research Fellowship, 2025
Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, Baylor University Fall 2023, Spring 2024