Dr. McGehee’s current book project (under contract with LSU Press)–Atlanta Fictions: Women Writers’ Urban Imaginaries–focuses on the Atlanta imaginary in modern and contemporary fiction, and her scholarly work has appeared in the edited volumes Queering the South On Screen (ed. Tison Pugh, UGA Press) and Remediating Region (eds. Gina Caison, Stephanie Rountree, and Lisa Hinrichsen, LSU Press) and in Southern Cultures, Southern Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Studies in American Culture, Southern Spaces, North Carolina Literary Review, and Gale’s American Writers series. At Oxford she has hosted the annual Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. In May 2015, she accompanied Dr. Maren Adams and several students to Japan as part of the Global Connections program; in May 2016, she and Dr. Susan Ashmore (History) co-led a Global Connections trip throughout the U.S. South focused on civil rights and social justice. She has also co-led global learning courses to Hawai’i, Martinique, and France. In spring of 2015, the Black Student Alliance at Oxford presented Dr. McGehee with the Reta Cobb Award. In 2016-17, she received the Fleming Faculty Service Award and the Phi Eta Sigma teaching award. McGehee has twice received the Gregory-Rackley Career Development grant. In 2017, she was awarded a grant from Emory’s University Research Committee (URC). 

Prior to her arrival at Oxford in the fall of 2014, Dr. McGehee spent six years at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, where she was a tenured Associate Professor of English. There, she received the 2012-13 Professor of the Year Award; an Excellence in Teaching Award from the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities association; and was named a finalist for the 2013 South Carolina Governor’s Professor of the Year Award.