Katherine Stewart

Program Coordinator

A Massachusetts Yankee in King Faulkner’s court, Katherine was raised in New England by Arkansan parents. After earning a degree in linguistics from the University of Iowa, she moved to Little Rock and embarked on a serpentine journey through the publishing world that included newspaper reporting, book fact-checking, and the editorship of a statewide magazine. Coincidentally, her first magazine job was at The Oxford American.

A career shift into the world of non-profits led her to the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Arkansas’s Petit Jean Mountain, where she facilitated the creation of the state’s official health improvement plan and worked to develop a five-county, three-year community and economic development program with Vaughn Grisham, emeritus director of the University of Mississippi’s McLean Institute. All roads lead to Oxford!

Before moving to Mississippi in 2018 for her husband’s job at Ole Miss, Katherine was a travel writer and the social media coordinator for the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, which was every bit as fun as it sounds. She couldn’t be happier to have landed in the Department of Theatre & Film, where she has rekindled a latent enthusiasm for theatre that began in elementary school. As the department’s program coordinator, Katherine wears a variety of hats—and is also learning to how make them in the costume shop.