Christopher Longest was born 23 February 1874 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. He graduated with the A.B. degree from The University of Mississippi in 1900. His first teaching position was that of Instructor of English at the Johns Hopkins University, where he completed graduate work in 1908. The University of Chicago awarded him a doctorate in 1915. In 1950, Mississippi College honored him with the degree of Doctor of Law.
Christopher Longest’s career in teaching and administration was composed almost wholly of service to The University of Mississippi, first as Assistant Professor of Latin, 1908-1910, then as Associate Professor of Latin, 1910-1920, Professor of Spanish, 1920-1947 and finally as Professor of Spanish and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages, 1947-1951.
In addition to his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages, Professor Longest held the following administrative positions at The University of Mississippi: Acting Chancellor, August 1930; Registrar, 1929-1930; and Director of the Summer Session, 1920-1934. He also managed the Alumni Fund from 1912 to 1951. Upon his retirement from active teaching, Dr. Longest assumed presidency of the First National Bank of Oxford.
2023
The Art of Sorrow: On Collecting Bedouin Women's Love Poetry, Miral al-Tahawy
2022
Women, Emperors and Popes: Matilde di Canossa, Fabio Finotti
2021
Love, Money, Murder: Disability in Germany, 1900-1945, Dagmar Herzog
2018
Tell Me What You Really Mean: Race-ing American Language Variationist and Sociolinguistic Research, Sonja L. Lanehart
2017
Angels, Demons, Martyrs, Doctors: The Power of the Musician in Russian Modernist Poetry, Karen Evans-Romaine
2016
Faulkner and Latin America: The Case of Brazil, Earl Fitz
2015
The Korean Wave, the Korean Language and Popular Culture, Sung-Ock Sohn
2014
The Growing Impact of African Languages in the United States, Antonia Schleicher
2013
The Last Utopian: Hayao Miyazaki and the Uses of Enchantment, Susan Napier
2012
2011
Art Made Flesh: Ekphrasis of Incarnation from Cervantes and Lope de Vega to Galdós and Vargas Llosa, Frederick A. de Armas
2010
Learning Arabic: The Risk of Identifying with the Adversary, Mahdi Alosh
2009
The Power of Babel -- And Why We Can't Fight It in Our Language, John McWhorter
2008
Beckett, the Poet, Marjorie G. Perloff
2007
Renaissance Misogyny and the Rejection of Petrarch, Diego Zancani
2006
The Origin of the Words MAN and WOMAN and the Germanic View of Humanity, Anatoly Liberman
2005
Mo Yan Under Western Eyes, Howard Goldblatt
2004
French-American Relations and the War in Iraq: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Idea of Europe, Jean-Philippe Mathy
2003
So Near Yet So Foreign: Cuba in the American Imagination, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
2002
What Disney Didn't Know: The Urban Origins of European Rags-to-Riches Fairy Tales, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
The Return of Coatlicue: Mexican Nationalism and the Aztec Past, Jean Franco
2001
Regional Dialects, Endangered Species, or Living Tradition: Evidence from Slavic, Ronelle Alexander
2000
Chaos, Complexity, Catastrophe and Control: Bridging the "Two Cultures" for the New Millennium, Patrick Brady
1998
Language as Aesthetic Object: Visual Poetry in the Spanish-American Avant-Garde, Merlin H. Forster
1997
The Inscrutable Mystery of Being: How African-American Literature Flourishes, Al Young
1996
The Viennese Waltz: A Social History, Susan Cocalis
1995
Romancing the Dead, Naomi Schor
1994
From Modernity to Postmodernity in Spanish Poetry, Andrew P. Debicki
1993
Thulsern: Germany's Little Postage Stamp of Native Soil, A. Leslie Willson
1992
Justice and Poetry: Dante's Book of the Dead, Robert Hollander
1991
On Explaining Language Universals: English, Russian, and the World, Bernard Comrie
1990
The Genesis of the Neo-Romance Languages: The Case of Creole French, Albert Valdman
1989
The Shakespearean Dynamic: Sonnets in Motion, Helen Hennessy Vendler
1988
Art, Music, and Narrative Poetry in the Making of a Masterpiece: The Cantigas de Santa María, John E. Keller
1987
The Impact of Goethe's Werther -- Then and Now, Katharina Mommsen
1986
Literature Reflecting Brazilian Society, Maria Isabel Abreu
The Inalienable Right to Please, Georges May
1984
Construing and Deconstructing: Two Ways of Reading a Poem by Wordsworth, Meyer Howard Abrams
1983
The Latin American Heritage: A Cultural Leitmotif, Kurt L. Levy
1982
The Rise and Fall of Postwar German Literature, Frank Trommler
1981
Tennis Courts and Theatres: The Development of Classical Drama in France, William Leon Wiley
1980
A Southern Literary Tradition: Satirical Humor from Captain John Smith to the Adoption of the Constitution, Richard Beale Davis
1979
The Writer as Anthropophagist: A View of Latin American Literature, Emir Rodríguez Monegal
The Ethics of Science from Adam to Einstein: A Literary View, Theodore J. Ziolkowski
1977
De Gaulle-Malraux: The Heroic Couple, Jacques Hardré
1976
The First Great Russian Novel, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, J. Thomas Shaw
1975
A Sense of the Present: Hawthorne and His Discontents, Roy Harvey Pearce
1974
Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry, Concha Zardoya
1973
Literature and Autobiography: Reflections on Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Erich Heller
1972
Literature Today, Germaine Brée
1971
The Short Novel and Thomas Wolfe, C. Hugh Holman
1970
The Role of the Intellectual in Spanish America, Enrique Anderson Imbert
1969
The Four Worlds of Dante Alighieri, Thomas Goddard Bergin
1968
From Lao-tse to Hermann Hesse: Germany's Contributions to World Literature and World Culture, Erich August Albrecht
1967
Adam, Eve, and the Fall in Paradise Lost, Fredson Thayer Bowers
1966
Mediaeval Daily Life (with illustrations), Urban Tigner Holmes
1965
On Being a Professional Writer in Latin America, Arturo Torres-Rioseco
1964
The Faust Theme: Origin and Diffusion, Harold von Hofe
1963
David Hume and Enlightenment, Ernest C. Mossner
1962
Literature and Politics in France Today, Henri Peyre
1961
The Prince of Wales and the Spanish Infanta: Romance versus Religion, Sturgis Elleno Leavitt