Dr. Jaime Cantrell is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Program at Texas A&M University Texarkana (TAMUT). Dr. Cantrell teaches various courses including ENGL 2326: American Literature, WGSS 1301: Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, HUMA 1301: Introduction to Humanities I, and various other English courses. 

Dr. Cantrell says that one of her favorite classes to teach is ENG 450: Studies in Genre/Poetry, which teaches students about the different types of poetry and the different approaches that students may take while reading poetry. “I’ve seen students in that class weep over the most beautiful language,” Dr. Cantrell said.  

From 2014-2018, Dr. Cantrell began working as  Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Then in 2018, Dr. Cantrell joined TAMUT as an Assistant Professor of English, and a Faculty Advisor, Spectrum. “I wouldn’t say that I ‘decided to become’ an English professor,” Dr. Cantrell said. “It just happened to me along the way of my graduate career.” 

Invited contribution to “The Bohemian South, Chapel Hill”: UNC Press, 2017, p. 107-127, and “Out of the Closet, Into the Archive: Researching Sexual Histories”, eds. Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell are only a few titles that she has worked on. She has been a part of essays and reviews that cover topics ranging from feminism, sexuality, and various other topics. “ [My] work is politically, pedagogically and philosophically informed by feminist goals and agendas that are both intersectional and interdisciplinary,” Dr. Cantrell said.