Dr. Christopher Metress
Professor of English
Office: North Divinity 317
Phone: 205-726-2192
E-mail: cpmetres@samford.edu
Dr. Metress earned his undergraduate degree in 1985 from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, and received his Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt in 1991. In addition to the university core, he teaches courses in American literature, southern literature and history, and film noir. Before coming to Samford in 1993, he was an assistant professor at Wake Forest University, and in the fall of 2003 he served as a visiting professor of humanities at Kalmar University, Sweden.
His essays and reviews have appeared in such journals at South Atlantic Quarterly, Southern Review, African-American Review and Studies in the Novel., and he has contributed essays to a variety of collections, including Contemporary Southern Writers, Critical Essays on Peter Taylor and, most recently, Reading Erskine Caldwell He is the editor of three books--The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett (Greenwood Press, 1995), The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative (U of Virginia Press, 2002), and Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (forthcoming, LSU Press 2007)-and he is currently working on a book-length study of white southern writers and the civil right movement. In addition to his publications, he has lectured widely on American and British literature, including invited talks at the University of Connecticut, New York University, the University of Virginia, and Wolfson College, Oxford.
He also directs the J. Roderick Davis Lecture Series, and he has served as the university's Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA since 1996.
