USC College Department of English

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