Department Staff and Faculty    Bennie Crockett  Professor of
Religion and Philosophy; Vice President for Institutional
Effectiveness and Long Range Planning; Co-Director of Carey
Center (601) 318-6116  Edison Williams  Instructor of Philosophy
and Language and Literature (601) 318-6445  Williams serves the
university in both the department of language and literature and
the department of philosophy. His academic interests include
comparative literature, and he teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses in medieval literature, history   of the
language, world literature and the novel. He is writing a
doctoral dissertation examining a dialectic of cultures:
specifically world literature and the shifting frame of
hermeneutical perspective. The subject area involves defining
"World Literature"   as a concept within a Heideggerian
understanding of art and world. Other concerns touched upon in
the dissertation are Post-colonial theory, Gadamerian
Hermeneutics and Ricourean Hermeneutics.