Red Rose Recipient 2010
Dr. Nancy Hargrove
Dr. Nancy D. Hargrove is William L. Giles Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Mississippi State University. Her areas of specialization are 20th Century American and British Poetry, 20th Century Drama (American, British, and Continental), 20th Century Southern Literature, and American Literature of the 1920s. Dr. Hargrove has authored three books and more than forty essays in book and scholarly journals on the works of many authors. Her books are: Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (1978), The Journey Toward Ariel: Sylvia Plath's Poetry of 1956-1959 (1994), and T.S. Eliot's Parisian Year (2009). She is the recipient of five Fulbright grants as well as numerous teaching and research awards. Her hobbies are tennis and travelling and she currently serves Starkville as director of the Starkville Reads Program.