Amber Gill is a third year Ph.D. student concentrating on 19^th century U.S. History.  She is especially interested in gendered nationalist rhetoric used by both the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. Her most recent writing project is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War mother songs/song sheets that center the dynamic of mother and soldier son as comparative to the nation and the citizen. 

Education

·         B.A. in Art, Minor in Art History, Jacksonville State University, AL, May 2010

·         M.A. in English Literature, Mississippi State University, MS, May 2020

·         (In Progress) Ph.D. in History, Mississippi State University, MS

Experience

• Internship, Berman Museum of World History, Anniston, AL, 2009 & 2010
• Writing Tutor, Mississippi State University Writing Center, 2018-2020
• Graduate TA, Mississippi State University English Department, 2018-2020
• Lecturer, Mississippi State University English Department, 2020-2023
• Instructor I of English Composition and Literature, Mississippi State University, 2023-present

Publications

·        Amber Morgan Gill, “The Fabric of Our Nation: A Nineteenth Century Night Shirt Reveals the Complex Value of Material Objects,” Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, December 2022, http://commonplace.online/article/ the-fabric-of-our-nation/.

·        Review of Dara Rossman Regaignon, Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2021, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, August 2022.

Guest Lectures

·         Guest Student Speaker, John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek Library Fund and Lecture Series, Mississippi State University Libraries, March 2023

Awards

·        2023 Marszalek Graduate Student Award

Conferences

·         Staff, International Narrative Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2020

·         Presenter, Mississippi Philological Association Conference, Jackson, MS, April 2018