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Vita 
Preselfannie Evet Whitfield McDaniels was born in Gould, Arkansas, on 
December 6, 1969. She was educated in the Gould public school system until sixth grade 
and educated in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas, public school system from sixth grade through 
graduation. In 1988, she graduated, with high honors, from Pine Bluff High School. She 
attended Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was an English 
major and a recipient of the President’s Scholarship and the Arkansas Trinity Foundation 
Scholarship. She graduated summa cum laude from Jackson State University in 1992. 
While at Jackson State University, she was a member of the W.E.B. DuBois Honors 
College, Pierian Literary Society (Miss Pierian), Sigma Tau Delta (President), Who’s 
Who, Alpha Lambda Delta, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, and she spent two 
summers at the University of Minnesota as a summer research scholar under the 
mentorship of Dr. Toni A. H. McNaron. She was also a President’s and Dean’s Lists 
scholar, the Humanities Scholar of the Year (1992), and the recipient of the Sigma Tau 
Delta International Graduate Scholarship. She attended Mississippi College and 
graduated with a Master of Arts degree in English in 1994. In the spring of 1994, she 
defended a thesis directed by Dr. George Pittman. She continued her doctoral studies at 
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, as one of the first Huel D. Perkins Fellowship 
recipients.
She is now Assistant Professor of English at Jackson State University, her alma 
mater, where she advises the Pierian Literary Society and is a member of the Ronald E. 
McNair Advisory Board and the Honors Council Advisory Board. She is a AAAA 
certified secondary level educator in the state of Mississippi and has worked as a seventh, 

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eighth, ninth, and tenth grade English teacher in the Mississippi public schools and as one 
of the first Reading Specialists for the Mississippi Department of Education. She is a 
member of the Mississippi Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers 
of English, College Language Association, and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 
(2003). The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on her at the May 2004 
commencement ceremony. 

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