Dr. Candis Pizzetta
Professor of English
Email: candis.p.pizzetta@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.6159
Office Location: H.T. Sampson Library, 4th floor, Suite 4108
Director of Faculty Development for Student Success: www.jsums.edu/scholars
Editor of The Researcher: www.jsums.edu/researcher
Link to schedule a student conference: https://calendly.com/candis-pizzetta/comp_conference
Regular office hours: Tuesdays 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. & 5 – 6 p.m. (virtual or in person), Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 p.m. (virtual), and Thursdays 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. (virtual or in person). If you are unable to meet at any of those times, please send me an email so that we discuss finding another time to meet.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, Baylor University
M.A., English, Mississippi College
B.A., English/Business Administration, University of Arkansas
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Early American women’s fiction
Cognitive approaches to narrative
Women, science, and science fiction (especially in the 19th century)
Developing interdisciplinary research methods for the humanities
COURSES TAUGHT
Modern Poetry and Poetics (graduate)
American Fiction before 1900 (graduate)
American Renaissance Literature
Twentieth Century American Poetry
Survey of American Literature
Southern Women Writers (graduate)
Research and Bibliography (graduate)
Critical Analysis of Literature (graduate)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies Association
Society for Utopian Studies
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
C19: The Society for Nineteenth Century Americanists
Modern Language Association
Mississippi Philological Association
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Pizzetta, C. (2024). A student designed interpretive framework: Adapting found poetry to analysis of modernist poetry for students at an HBCU. In C. Gelmi and E. LeRud (Eds.), Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy. SUNY Press.
Hines, A.L., Jones, L., Pizzetta, C., Berhie, G., Cecchetti, A. A., Ikem, F., Azevedo, M., Davidson, E., White, M., & Malone, S., (2023). The Use of Wearable Devices as a Self-Help Approach to Wellness Promotion, Overcoming Health Disparities and Reducing Medical Distrust Among African Americans. J Pub Health Issue Pract 7(2): 220. doi: https://doi.org/10.33790/jphip1100220
White, M.S., Malone, S.M., Jones, L., Berhie, G., Pizzetta, C., Davidson, E., Ikem, F., Azevedo, M., and Hines, A. (2023). Examining Motivation Factors for African American Students’ Use of Consumer Wearables. Digital Health. doi: 10.1177/20552076231203670
White, M.S., Pizzetta, C., Berhie, G., Davidson, E., Hines, A., Azevedo, M., Ikem, F., Jones, L., and Malone, S. (2023). Mississippi Church Leaders’ Perceptions of Challenges and Barriers to the Use of Consumer Wearables Among Community Members. AIMS Public Health.
Kersen, T. and Pizzetta, C. (2021). “Urban Co-operatives: Exploring Sustainable Living in Alabama.” Tributaries: A Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association, 15, 58-64.
Pizzetta, C. (2021) Introduction: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Knowledge Economy. In R. Luckett (Ed.), Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century. University Press of Mississippi.
Pizzetta, C. (2018) Morality and Money: The Economic Value of Virtue in The Story of Margaretta. POMPA, 35, 180-191.
Moore, L. Pizzetta, C., Kupenda, A.M., and Leggette, E. (2018) Normalizing the Recognition of Implicit Bias as a Precursor to Normalizing Blackness. Southern Journal of Policy and Justice, 12.
Pizzetta, C. (2018). A Darwinian Approach to Judith Sargent Murray’s “On the Equality of the Sexes.” International Journal of Language and Literature, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.15640/ijll.v6n1a1.
Pizzetta, C. (2017). Anne Enright. In L.J. Trudeau (Ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 407 (pp. 49-134). Gale.
Kersen, T. and Pizzetta, C. (2016). Exploring Regional Identity in Arkansas: The Salience of the Ozark Term. Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies, 7. 63-75.
Pizzetta, C. (2015). Circumstantial Evidence: Elusive Truth in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.” POMPA, 32, 73-86.
Pizzetta, C. (2015). Expanding Boundaries: The Language of Custom, Female Agency, and the Origin of Abolitionism in the New United States. In P.J. Daniels (Ed.), The Power of the Word: The Sacred and the Profane (pp. 121-144). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Henderson, H., Radford, N., Pizzetta, C., and Prodduturu, S. (2014). Diary Reporting and Phonetic Transcription for Effective Speech Analysis in Children with Disabilities: What Itard did not Know. Online Journal of Rural and Urban Research, 4(1).
Pizzetta, C. (2013) Introduction. The Researcher Special Issue: Cyberlearning, 26(3). v-xv.
Pizzetta, C. (2012). Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985, [Review of Reading for the Body by J. Watson]. Journal of Mississippi History, 74, 298-300.
Pizzetta, C. (2012). Division of Maternal Effort in Anne Enright’s The Gathering. In P.J. Daniels Constructing the Literary Self: Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature (pp. 199-212). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.