About

Percival Everett

Distinguished Professor of English

Contact Information
E-mail: peverett@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3743
Office: THH 402F

 

Education
M.A. Fiction, Brown University, 1/1982
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Professor, University of California, Riverside, 01/01/1992-01/01/1998  
Professor, University of Notre Dame, 01/01/1988-01/01/1991  
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, 01/01/1985-01/01/1988  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Everett researches American studies and critical theory and creates his own works of fiction, including 15 novels and collections. He recently won the 2002 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for his novel Erasure, a satiric indictment of race and publishing in America.
 

Publications

Book
Everett II, P. L. (2007). Wounded. St. Paul, MN: Wounded/Gray Wolf.
Everett II, P. L. (2006). re:f(gesture. re:f(gesture/Red Hen Press.
Everett II, P. L. (2006). American Desert. Greece: American Desert/Polis Publishing Ltd..
 

Other
Everett II, P. L. Erasure, 2001.
Everett II, P. L. Grand Canyon, Inc., 2001.
Everett II, P. L. Percival Everett, Glyph, 1999.
Everett II, P. L. Percival Everett, Frenzy, 1997.
Everett II, P. L. The One That Got Away, 1992.
Everett II, P. L. God's Country, 1994.
 

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
book, re:f(gesture), 2005-2006   
book, The Water Cure, 2007-2008   
book, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, a novel, 2009-2010   
 

Honors and Awards
USC Distinguished Professor, 2/12/2007-  
PEN USA Literary Award, 2006-2007   
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Literature Award, 4/2003  
Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for "Erasure", 2002  
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2002  
Hillsdale Award, The Fellowship of Southern Writers, 2001  
Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1994  
Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, New American Writing Award for "Zulus", 1990  
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
Director, Ph.D. Program in Literature and Creative Writing, 2009-2010   
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Fiction Editor, CALLALOO, 1994  
 
 
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