Grace Perry McCright

Education

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