Anniversaries

2024 Conference Program

The fiftieth anniversary Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will be held in person, with a remote option for international scholars prohibited from traveling to the U.S., from July 21 to July 25, 2024. The Division of Outreach and Continuing Education will contact all remote registrants with an electronic newsletter containing digital links to all events on the conference program below. Remote registrants should be sure to upgrade to the most current version of Zoom software by July 21.

The conference will begin on Sunday, July 21, with a reception at the University Museum, after which the academic program of the conference will open with keynote addresses, followed by a buffet supper on the grounds of Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak.

Over the next four days, a busy schedule of lectures and panels will also make room for teaching sessions, an afternoon cocktail reception, a picnic served at Rowan Oak, guided tours, and a closing party on Thursday afternoon, July 25. Throughout the conference, the University’s J. D. Williams Library will display Faulkner books, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia. The University Press of Mississippi will exhibit Faulkner books and titles of related interest published by university presses throughout the United States, and Faulkner collector Seth Berner will give a brown bag lunch presentation on “Collecting Faulkner.”

All registrants, whether they are teachers or not, are welcome at these sessions.

Keynote Speakers

Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman is associate professor of American studies and English at Brown University. She is author of Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture (2024) and Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race (2012), as well as guest editor of the Faulkner Journal special issue on race, racism, and the work of antiracism (2023) and coeditor of the forthcoming African American Literature in Transition: The 1950s. Her essays on Faulkner have appeared in the Faulkner and Whiteness (2011) and New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (2015) collections, as well as in the Faulkner Journal.

Catherine Gunther Kodat is professor of English at Marist College, where she also serves as provost and dean of the faculty. She is the author of Don’t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture (2015) and Faulknerista  (2022), and her essays on Faulkner have been published in American Literary History, the Faulkner Journal, and edited collections including The New Faulkner Studies, Faulkner in the Media Ecology, William Faulkner in Context, Faulkner’s Sexualities, The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel, A Companion to William Faulkner, Faulkner in America, and Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. She has served as representative-at-large (2018–21) and secretary/treasurer (2003–2006) to the William Faulkner Society.

Trudier Harris is University Distinguished Research Professor of English emerita at the University Alabama and the J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of North Carolina. A 2018 recipient of the Richard Beale Davis Award for lifetime achievement in southern literary studies, she is author of twelve published or forthcoming books, including Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature (2014), The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South (2009), and The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (1996).

Among her many coedited volumes are Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1997) and the Norton anthology of The Literature of the American South (1998).

Claude Romano is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He is the author or editor of nearly two dozen books, including Le Chant de la vie: Phénoménologie de Faulkner [The Song of Life: Phenomenology of Faulkner] (2005), and his essays on Faulkner have been published in Esprit and Cycnos: Études anglophones. A former holder of the Perelman Chair at the Free University of Brussels (2021–22) and the Gadamer Chair at Boston College (2019–20), he has also held visiting professorships in Italy, Chile, Portugal, Lebanon, Australia, and the US. In 2020 he was awarded the Grand Prix de Philosophy from the French Academy.

Koichi Suwabe is associate professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo. His publications include William Faulkner’s Poetics: 1930–1936 (2008), which received the Shimizu Hiroshi award from the Japanese Association for American Studies, along with monographs on the American novel, noir fiction, Raymond Chandler, and Kurt Vonnegut, and edited collections including Faulkner and Japanese Literature (2019) and An Introduction to American Literature, now in its second edition (2023). He is also the translator for recent Japanese editions of Flags in the Dust (2021) and Light in August (2016).

Additional speakers and panelists will be selected from the call for papers competition.

2024 Conference Schedule

• Walk-up onsite conference registration opens Sunday, July 21, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. in the Music Building/Nutt Auditorium (follow signage).
• A reception at the University Museum is set for 1:00 p.m., followed by the first keynote speaker at 2:30 p.m.
• The conference will conclude with the closing party scheduled for the afternoon of Thursday, July 25 at Off Square Books.
• A detailed program will be provided with the conference registration packet.

SUNDAY, JULY 21
1:00 p.m.	RECEPTION
	University Museum
2:30 p.m.	KEYNOTE LECTURE
	OF DEMI-GODS AND INFLUENCES: WILLIAM FAULKNER AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
	Trudier Harris
	Nutt Auditorium
4:00 p.m.	ROUNDTABLE 1
	THE CONFERENCE HISTORY: ORIGINS, ORIENTINGS, OUTGROWTHS
	Peter Lurie, Moderator
	Ann J. Abadie, Donald M. Kartiganer, John N. Duvall, Jay Watson
	Nutt Auditorium
5:30 p.m.	CATFISH SUPPER
	Rowan Oak
7:30 p.m.	EVENING PROGRAM
	Nutt Auditorium
	EUDORA WELTY AWARD WINNERS
	Rebecca Lauck Cleary, Center for the Study of Southern Culture
	JOHN W. HUNT SCHOLAR
	Laura Wilson, William Faulkner Society
	THE ANN J. ABADIE LECTURE IN SOUTHERN STUDIES
	Ron Rash
MONDAY, JULY 22
8:00 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 1
	CIRCA 1924: APPRENTICESHIPS
	Nutt Auditorium
	WILLIAM FAULKNER, PLEIN AIR PAINTER
	Brooke P. Alexander
	SEEING BLACKNESS IN THE NEW WORLD GARDEN: FAULKNER’S MARBLE FAUN AS AFRICAN FREEDOM SEEKER
	Randall Wilhelm
	FAULKNER SEEING / SEEING PICASSO: PERSPECTIVES’ CARNIVAL IN THE EARLY ’20S
	Candace Waid
	PANEL 2
	ACROSS FIVE CONTINENTS: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
	Music Building 153
	JOSE ARCADIO BUENDIA AND THOMAS SUTPEN: AN INTERSECTION OF PATRIARCHS WHO TRY TO CREATE ECOSYSTEMS FOR THEIR DESCENDANTS BUT TIME, SPACE, AND PLACE WILL NOT ALLOW IT
	Brian McDonald
	THE FAULKNER EFFECT 1: PORTUGAL
	Duncan Chesney
	LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY: FAULKNER’S GAZE IN AS I LAY DYING
	Elizabeth Howard
9:30 a.m.	TEACHING FAULKNER
	James Carothers and Theresa Towner
	Nutt Auditorium
11:00 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 3
	SOUTHERN COMPARISONS
	Nutt Auditorium
	THE LASTING WEIGHT OF SLAVERY: FAULKNER, WELTY, AND THE BURDENS OF WHITE WOMANHOOD
	Susan V. Donaldson
	WATCHING WILLIAMS QUEERING FAULKNER: WITNESSING UNRELIABILITY IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
	Ahmed Honeini
	QUEERED TRANSMISSIONS: SOUTHERN LEGACY REROUTED FROM GHOST TO CHILD
	Brock Rustin
	PANEL 4
	TRANSLATION AND BIOGRAPHY
	Music Building 153
	A STYLISTIC EXPLORATION OF THE TRANSLATION OF BENJY COMPSON’S ATYPICAL VOICE IN FRENCH
	Camille Le Gall
	PUBLISHING FAULKNER: FAULKNER IN TRANSLATION
	Aurore Touya
	BLOTNER’S FAULKNER FIFTY YEARS LATER
	Carl Rollyson
12:30 p.m.	COLLECTING FAULKNER
	Seth Berner
	Nutt Auditorium
	[Box lunches will be provided for those who pre-registered]
2:00 p.m.	KEYNOTE LECTURE
	REFLECTIONS ON THE POWER OF EVIL IN FAULKNER’S WORK
	Claude Romano
	Nutt Auditorium
3:30 p.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 5
	NATIONAL COMPARISONS
	Nutt Auditorium
	FAULKNER AND DU BOIS: THE PLANTATION AND WHITE SOUTHERN GRIEVANCE
	Will Edmonstone
	FROM FORELIVES TO AFTERLIVES: INDIGENEITY, ANIMALITY, AND THE PROBLEM OF THE NEW IN THE FOLK HORRORS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, CORMAC MCCARTHY, AND STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
	Bernard T. Joy
	FLOODED, WASTED LANDSCAPES: RECYCLING AS I LAY DYING IN CORMAC MCCARTHY’S CHILD OF GOD
	Martyn Bone
	PANEL 6
	FAULKNER AND COLORS
	Music Building 153
	FAULKNER IN “AN ARTIST’S SMOCK”: WRITING COLORS IN “A PORTRAIT OF ELMER”
	Frédérique Spill
	BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW, NOTHING—WILLIAM FAULKNER’S YELLOW BODIES
	Solveig Dunkel
	PARCHMENTCOLORED: UNREPRESENTABILITY, ANIMALITY, AND THE LOGICS OF RACE IN LIGHT IN AUGUST
	Joanna Davis-McElligatt
	THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF TRANSLATING COLORS IN FAULKNER
	Michał Choiński
5:00 p.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 7
	NEW APPROACHES TO SANCTUARY
	Nutt Auditorium
	OF CORNFLOWERS, BOOTLEGGERS, AND GANGSTERS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FAULKNER AND ANITA LOOS
	Mary A. Knighton
	CANE JUICE VS. SANCTUARY: BANNED BOOKS, SOUTHERN GOTHIC, AND THE FAULKNER CANON
	Michael P. Bibler
	WILLIAM FAULKNER’S SANCTUARY AND DAVID LYNCH’S BLUE VELVET: INTERTEXTUALITY, NOIR ELEMENTS, AND SUBTEXT
	C. Lee Shell
	PANEL 8
	MAKING MEANING IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE: SITES OF ANTAGONISM AND ASPIRATION IN FAULKNER
	Music Building 153
	SCHOOLHOUSE YOKNAPATAWPHA: READING SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SNOPES TRILOGY
	Ted Atkinson
	UNPACKING FAULKNER’S LIBRARY: AN ARCHI-TEXTUAL READING
	Amy A. Foley
	“LIKE THE SOUNDS THAT NEGROES MAKE”: “THAT EVENING SUN” AND THE RISE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
	Tim A. Ryan
9:00 p.m.	FILM SCREENING
	FAULKNER: THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD
	Anita Modak-Truran and Ana Lampton, commentary
	Nutt Auditorium
TUESDAY, JULY 23
8:00 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 9
	AESTHETICS AND TECHNIQUE: NEW APPROACHES
	Nutt Auditorium
	THE SOUND AND THE FURY AND THE MARKETPLACE: FAULKNER’S ATTEMPTED BESTSELLER
	J. Greg Brister
	“MYRIAD” IN FAULKNER: A SILENT ECHO
	Stephanie Eyrolles Suchet
	AESTHETICS AND TECHNIQUE: NEW APPROACHES
	Nutt Auditorium
	LES DEMOISELLES DE YOKNAPATAWPHA: SURFACE READING CUBISM IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
	Fallon Murphy
	PANEL 10
	GENDER AND UNGENDERING
	Music Building 153
	FAULKNER’S RECLUSE: SECLUSION IN LIGHT IN AUGUST, ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND “A ROSE FOR EMILY”
	Eva Gourdoux
	THE VIOLENCE OF UNGENDERING, THE PORNOTROPE, AND THE HUNTING RITUAL IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S “THE BEAR”
	Shiyu Zhang
9:30 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	WORKSHOP
	PULP FAULKNER
	Jaime Harker and Ellen Shelton, chairs
	Faulkner Room, Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library
	Please note that seats in this workshop must be reserved by Monday, July 8.
	PANEL 11
	FAULKNER IN TRANSLATION: INTERCONTINENTAL DRIFTS
	Nutt Auditorium
	“AFTER FIFTY YEARS” AFTER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
	Douglas Robinson
	LOST BATTLES? DOSTOEVSKY’S PRESENCE IN FAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY AND A FABLE, IN THEIR RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS, AND UNTRANSLATABILITY
	Andrew Reynolds
	SANCTUARY PLUS “A ROSE FOR EMILY” EQUALS CARGO 200: A RETURN OF THE SUPPRESSED
	Ivan Delazari
11:00 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 12
	FAULKNER AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
	Leigh Anne Duck, Moderator
	Nutt Auditorium
	MULTILINGUAL ABSALOM, MONOLINGUAL ABSALOM: WILLIAM FAULKNER’S EMPIRE OF LANGUAGE
	Harilaos Stecopoulos
	WILLIAM FAULKNER AMONG THE STORYTELLERS OF THE PLANTATIONOCENE
	Jerry W. Carlson
	CHANGING VIEWS ON TEACHING FAULKNER AND (ON) OTHER SOUTHS
	Deborah Cohn
	PANEL 13
	LAW, ETHICS, JUSTICE
	Music Building 153
	FAULKNER AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
	Timothy T. Hsieh
	FAULKNER’S LIFEBOAT: TROLLEY PROBLEMS AND IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM
	Michael Wainwright
	FAULKNER’S MERTONIAN VISION
	Conor Picken
12:00 p.m.	LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
2:00 p.m.	KEYNOTE LECTURE
	UNIVERSAL BONES
	Catherine Gunther Kodat
	Nutt Auditorium
3:30 p.m.	PANEL 14
	GO SLOW NOW, OR A DREAM DEFERRED: WILLIAM FAULKNER AND CIVIL RIGHTS
	Nutt Auditorium
	HOW FAULKNER WAS USED AS COPY AND SHORTHAND BY WRITERS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS BEAT
	Sharon Monteith
	HIGHTOWER MUSING: WILLIAM FAULKNER AND THE LIMITS OF WHITE LIBERALISM
	Robert Jackson
	THE NATURE OF SURVIVAL: THE FRACTURED SUBJECTIVITIES OF QUENTIN COMPSON AND RUFUS SCOTT, AND THE WAY THEY BEAR WITNESS
	Laura Stiffler
5:00 p.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 15
	YOKNAPATAWPHA AND BOIS SAUVAGE: WILLIAM FAULKNER AND JESMYN WARD
	Nutt Auditorium
	FAULKNER AND WARD AS “FAILED POET[S]”: MYTHOS AND LYRICISM IN AS I LAY DYING AND SALVAGE THE BONES
	Anne MacMaster
	AS I LAY DYING AND SING, UNBURIED, SING: A HAUNTOLOGICAL READING
	Joanna Davis-McElligatt
	“THAT MONSTROUS SPIRIT BINDS HER, BLINDS HER”: THE STERILE POWER OF WHITE WOMANHOOD IN FAULKNER’S “A ROSE FOR EMILY” AND WARD’S LET US DESCEND
	Anita DeRouen
	PANEL 16
	CIRCA 1954: A FABLE AND/IN ITS TIME
	Music Building 153
	A FABLE AND THE REAL WAR, 1914-1918
	Michael Zeitlin
	THE ART OF DYING AUTHENTICALLY: A HEIDEGGEREAN READING OF FAULKNER’S A FABLE
	Robert A. Winkler
	REFLECTIONS ON THE HEART OF LEADERSHIP
	Gloria J. Burgess
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24
8:00 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 17
	TEACHING AND LEARNING FAULKNER IN THE DIGITAL AGE
	Joost Burgers, Erin Penner, and Jennie Joiner
	Nutt Auditorium
	ROUNDTABLE 2
	READING FAULKNER IN PHOENIX
	Deborah Clarke, Moderator
	Flo Eckstein, Paul Eckstein, Kathleen Ingley, Jonathan Rose, Wendy Rose, Jon Sands, Howard Seftel
	Music Building 153
9:00 a.m.	TEACHING FAULKNER II
	Jennie Joiner and Brian McDonald
	Nutt Auditorium
11:00 a.m.	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
	PANEL 18
	FAULKNER IN ASIA, ASIA IN FAULKNER, AND FAULKNER AND ASIAN WRITERS
	Nutt Auditorium
	FAULKNER’S “MISSISSIPPI”: HOLIDAY, ENCOUNTER, AND BUNGAKUKAI
	Yuko Yamamoto
	“TASTE AND RESPONSIBILITY—YOU MANILA SNOPESES”: FAULKNER AND THE PHILIPPINES
	Jenna Grace Sciuto
	ALTERNATIVE MODERNITIES IN CONTINUUM: THE SPATIAL AND SEXUAL OTHERNESS IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S LIGHT IN AUGUST AND PAI HSIEN-YUNG’S CRYSTAL BOYS
	Pei-Wen Clio Kao
	COMPARING WILLIAM FAULKNER AND MO YAN: A STUDY ON SEXUAL ETHICS
	Mengyu Li
	PANEL 19
	FAULKNER’S ANIMALS
	Music Building 153
	ANIMAL TRACKS: BLACK BEARS, HUNTING, AND MODERNITY IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S GO DOWN, MOSES
	Savannah DiGregorio
	FAMILIAL ECOSYSTEMS IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S “THE BEAR” AND JESYMN WARD’S SALVAGE THE BONES
	Rebecca Nisetich
	FAULKNER’S FARMYARD FABLE: “AFTERNOON OF A COW” AS WAR STORY
	Laura Wilson
12:30 p.m.	LIBRARY LECTURE
	WILLIAM FAULKNER’S WARS WITH THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
	Theresa Towner
	Faulkner Room, Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library [Light lunch will be served]
2:00 p.m.	KEYNOTE LECTURE
	WILLIAM FAULKNER AND NOIR FICTION
	Koichi Suwabe
3:30 p.m.	PANEL 20
	FAULKNER AND WAR: PERSPECTIVES FROM JAPAN
	Nutt Auditorium
	A FABLE, POSTWAR JAPAN, AND THE VOICE OF PACIFISM
	Satoshi Kanazawa
	WALKING “AMICABLY” WITH FLEM SNOPES: THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, MANFRED DE SPAIN, AND A DEMOCRATIZATION THROUGH MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL AGENCY IN THE TOWN
	Koichi Fujino
	IN THE SHADOW OF GODZILLA: MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC WAR AND FAULKNER’S VISIT TO JAPAN
	Arinori Mori
	PANEL 21
	AESTHETICS AND GENRE: NEW APPROACHES
	Music Building 153
	FAULKNER, THE HOLLYWOOD NOVEL, AND THE GENRE HYBRIDITY OF PYLON
	Ben Robbins
	SWAMP POETICS AND BLACK AESTHETICS IN FAULKNER’S CARIBBEAN POSTAGE STAMPS
	Ryan Heryford
	PARTICLES AND WAVES IN THE FAULKNERIAN WORLD
	Hyo Seon Kim
5:00 p.m.	FILM SCREENING
	“ARE YOU WALKIN WITH ME?”: SISTER THEA BOWMAN
	Riché Richardson and Father Manuel Williams, commentary
	Nutt Auditorium
6:15 p.m.	WALK THROUGH BAILEY WOODS
	Departs from parking lot behind University Museums
6:30 p.m.	PICNIC SUPPER
	Rowan Oak
9:00 p.m.	FILM SCREENING
	CARGO 200
	Ivan Delazari, commentary
THURSDAY, JULY 25
9:00 a.m.	GUIDED TOURS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI
	(All tours depart from the parking lot at the Inn at Ole Miss)
	OXFORD OVERVIEW
	Jay Watson
	MISSISSIPPI DELTA
	Scott Barretta
	AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY
	Rhondalyn Peairs
5:00 p.m.	READING AND BOOK SIGNING
	Julia Phillips
	Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford
5:30 p.m.	CLOSING PARTY
	With a reading and signing by Robert W. Hamblin
	Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford

2024 Program Participants

Ann J. Abadie is associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. She was a member of the founding committee of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and coedited its annual volumes of proceedings from 1974 to 2012. She also served as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), the twenty-four volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (2006–2013), and the Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017).

Brooke P. Alexander is an instructional assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. She completed her BA in studio art with a minor in English in 2015 from Athens State University, and her MFA in studio art with a concentration in painting in 2018 from the University of Mississippi. Her work has been shown regionally and nationally.

Ted Atkinson is associate professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of Mississippi Quarterly. His publications on Faulkner include Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics (2006) and essays in edited collections and journals. His latest book project is titled Monumental Designs: Infrastructure and the Culture of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Seth Berner discovered William Faulkner in high school and that some books are more equal than others. He has been an obsessed book collector ever since. This is Seth’s twenty-fifth Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, give or take a dozen, and his fifteenth speaking on collecting Faulkner. Seth’s online book catalog can be found at www.bernerbooks.com.

Michael P. Bibler is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 (2009) and coeditor of both the essay collection Just below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South (2007) and the first-ever reprint of Arna Bontemps’s 1939 novel Drums at Dusk (2009).

Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Where the New World Is: Literature about the US South at Global Scales (2018) and The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (2005). His third monograph, Matters of Black Southern Life and Death: Jesmyn Ward’s Writing, will be published in spring 2025.

J. Gregory Brister is professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature at Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota. His current research is concerned with how the work of modernists like Faulkner, Joyce, and Woolf informed and were informed by interwar bestselling fiction, film, and advertising.

Joost Burgers is an associate professor at James Madison University. He is a codirector for Digital Yoknapatawpha and the director of Teaching and Learning Faulkner in the Digital Age. In this capacity, he is facilitating the creation of interactive, online learning modules that teachers can adapt to their own pedagogical ends.

Gloria J. McEwen Burgess is a member of the faculty in transformational leadership at the University of Southern California, the University of Washington, and Slovenia’s IEDC–Bled School of Management. Working at the nexus of leadership, artistry, and social justice, she is author of Flawless Leadership and Pass It On!, the latter a sumptuous visual biography about her father, Earnest McEwen Jr., and William Faulkner.

Jerry W. Carlson is a historian of narrative forms specializing in narrative theory, the history of the novel, global independent film, and the cinemas of the Americas. From 2013 to 2022 he served as chair of the Department of Media and Communication Arts at City College CUNY. At CUNY Graduate Center he is a member of the doctoral faculties of French, comparative literature, and film and media cultures, and he is a senior fellow at the Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies.

James Carothers came to his first Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in 1979, where he met an extraordinary gathering of young Faulknerians who would shape the scholarship and criticism of Faulkner studies over the next thirty-plus years through the Faulkner Journal, the University Press of Mississippi’s Reading Faulkner volumes, the “Teaching Faulkner” sessions at the conference, and the Digital Yoknapatawpha project.

Duncan McColl Chesney is professor of comparative literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of National Taiwan University in Taipei. He is currently at work on a book project on the Faulkner-effect on European literature.

Michał Choiński is associate professor of American studies at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland). In 2022, he was a senior Fulbright Fellow at Yale University. He is currently working on his monograph about the work of Southern expat writers.

Deborah Clarke is professor of English at Arizona State. She works on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American fiction. Her work includes Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner and Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America.

Deborah Cohn is Provost Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of The Latin American Literary Boom and US Nationalism during the Cold War and History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction, as well as coeditor, with Hilary Kahn, of International Education at the Crossroads and, with Jon Smith, of Look Away! The US South in New World Studies.

Joanna Davis-McElligatt is assistant professor of Black literary and cultural studies affiliate faculty in women’s and gender studies and LGTBQ+ studies at the University of North Texas. She is at work on her first monograph, entitled “Black Aliens: Narrative Spacetime in the Cosmic Diaspora.”

Ivan Delazari is assistant professor of languages, linguistics, and literature at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is the author of Musical Stimulacra (2021) and other publications in comparative literature, narratology, and intermediality studies. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Mississippi (2009–10) and a Hong Kong PhD Fellow (2014–17).

Anita DeRouen teaches English at Murrah High School in Jackson, Mississippi. She has published on race and media representation, digital literacy, and most recently Richard Wright. She serves as community liaison for the Millsaps College Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center and is an independent racial dialogue consultant.

Savannah DiGregorio is a fifth-year PhD candidate and Russell G. Hamilton Fellow in the English department at Vanderbilt University. Her current research combines literary studies, case law, and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the enactment of racial narratives through ritualized performances of violence against human and animal in the US South and beyond. A portion of this work, “A Feast of Snakes: Cultural Memory, Race, and the Sensuous,” is forthcoming in a special issue of Post-45 titled “Race and Animality Reconsidered.”

Susan V. Donaldson is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English and American Studies emerita at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865–1914 (1998), which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award, coeditor with Anne Goodwyn Jones of Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, and editor and coeditor of several special issues of Mississippi Quarterly and the Faulkner Journal. She is also the author of more than sixty journal essays and book chapters.

Leigh Anne Duck is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where she edits the journal The Global South. Her work on Faulkner—as on many other literary and visual artists—centers on the representational logics associated with racial segregation and the transnational circulation of artists, ideologies, and aesthetic styles.

Solveig Dunkel’s PhD, which was co-supervised by the University of Picardy-Jules Verne and Boston University, is entitled “‘The Old Meat After All’: William Faulkner’s Poetics of the Body.” She is the book review editor for the Faulkner Journal and a representative-at-large at the William Faulkner Society. She currently teaches at University Paris-Nanterre, France.

John N. Duvall is Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of English at Purdue University. He has given five plenary lectures (1985, 1994, 1999, 2007, and 2019) and four previous panel talks (2015, 2017, 2022, and 2023) at Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha. Earlier this year, Vintage International published his 2022 edition of Knight’s Gambit, which restores more than four thousand words that magazine editors had cut.

Flo Eckstein graduated from the University of Arizona, where she came to know William Faulkner’s work in an American literature class. Her favorite of his novels is As I Lay Dying. She retired after thirty-two years as publisher of the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, a community weekly newspaper.

Paul Eckstein graduated from Pomona College where he was introduced to William Faulkner through “Barn Burning,” “The Bear,” and Intruder in the Dust, leading to a lifetime of self-directed reading of virtually all of Faulkner’s works. He graduated from Harvard Law School and has practiced law in Phoenix for fifty-eight years.

Will Edmonstone received his PhD in American studies from Boston University in 2021. He lives in New York City, where he teaches for the Bard Prison Initiative and the Department of Literature and Critical Analysis at the New School.

Amy A. Foley is visiting assistant professor at Providence College in Rhode Island. Some of her work can be found in the Faulkner Journal, Faulkner and Slavery, Modern Language Studies, Irish Studies Review, and MIT’s architecture journal, Thresholds. Her presentation is an extension of her manuscript under review, “Doorways to Being: Modernism and ‘Lived’ Architectures.” Her current manuscript theorizes bodily motion in the novel.

Koichi Fujino is professor of American literature and culture at Seinan Gakuin University, Japan. He is the author of Studying and Teaching W. C. Falkner, William Faulkner, and Digital Literacy (2018), and now conducting research on William Faulkner’s later works for his next book.

Eva Gourdoux is a PhD in American literature and a teaching assistant at the University of Pau, France. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the dynamics of seclusion in the works of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor. Her research interests include southern literature, southern studies, and the representations of marginality.

Catherine Gunther Kodat is professor of English at Marist College, where she also serves as provost and dean of the faculty. She is the author of Don’t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture (2015) and Faulknerista (2022), and her essays on Faulkner have been published in American Literary History, the Faulkner Journal, and edited collections including The New Faulkner Studies, Faulkner in the Media Ecology, William Faulkner in Context, Faulkner’s Sexualities, The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel, A Companion to William Faulkner, Faulkner in America, and Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned. She has served as representative-at-large (2018–21) and secretary/treasurer (2003–2006) to the William Faulkner Society.

Robert W. Hamblin is emeritus professor of English and the founding director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, where he taught for fifty years. A frequent presenter at the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, he has authored or edited more than seventy books of Faulkner studies, poetry, fiction, biographies, and memoirs.

Jaime Harker is professor of English and director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is author of America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars (2007), Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America (2013), and The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon (2018), and editor or coeditor of multiple volumes, including Faulkner and Print Culture (2017). She also coedited a special issue of the Mississippi Quarterly on Oprah Winfrey’s Summer of Faulkner.

Trudier Harris is University Distinguished Research Professor of English emerita at the University Alabama and the J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of North Carolina. A 2018 recipient of the Richard Beale Davis Award for lifetime achievement in southern literary studies, she is author of twelve published or forthcoming books, including Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature (2014), The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South (2009), and The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (1996). Among her many coedited volumes are Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1997) andthe Norton anthology of The Literature of the American South (1998).

Ryan Heryford is associate professor of environmental literature at California State University East Bay, where he teaches courses in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, ecopoetry, and cultural narratives of environmental justice. His most recent articles can be found in ISLE, the Emily Dickinson Journal, Mark Twain Annual, and Miranda: A Journal of Anglophone Studies, as well as the Faulkner’s Geographies (2015) and Faulkner and Money (2019) collections.

Ahmed Honeini is an honorary research associate in American literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound (2021) and the forthcoming Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles. He is the founder of the Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network and an associate editor of the Journal of American Studies.

Elizabeth Howard is the producer and host of the Short Fuse Podcast, conversations with individuals whose art reveals our communities through their lens and stirs us to seek change. Her books include Queen Anne’s Lace and Wild Blackberry Pie (2011), A Day with Bonefish Joe (2015), and Ned O’Gorman: A Glance Back (2016). She also leads reading groups at the Center for Fiction in New York, where she resides.

Timothy Hsieh is an associate professor at Oklahoma City University School of Law, where he focuses on intellectual property, antitrust, administrative law and entertainment/sports law. His articles have appeared in the Mississippi Law Journal, and he has won accolades for his short fiction under his pen name of “Timothy Tau.”

Kathleen Ingley is freelance writer and retired journalist who worked at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Arizona Republic. Her writing has focused on water, energy and the challenge of growth.

Robert Jackson is James G. Watson Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He studies the cultural history of the modern and contemporary United States. He has written books on regional literature and film history, and has edited journal issues of the Faulkner Journal, James Baldwin Review, and The Global South. He recently completed work on a book about the relationship between James Baldwin and Robert F. Kennedy, and his current projects include a coedited volume entitled “Jim Crow Modernism” and a book about Faulkner, African American literature, and civil rights history.

Jennie Joiner is professor of English at Keuka College in upstate New York, where she teaches introductory literature courses that are grounded in studies of place and geography. She is a senior collaborating editor of the Digital Yoknapatawpha project, and her publications include articles on William Faulkner in the Faulkner Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, and the Flannery O’Connor Review.

Bernard T. Joy is a writer, researcher, and educator living in Scotland. He earned his PhD from the University of Glasgow. His work appears or is scheduled to appear in the Faulkner Journal, the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha book series, the Journal of American Studies, the European Journal of American Culture, with Lexington Books, Palgrave Macmillan, and elsewhere.

Satoshi Kanazawa got his PhD at University of Kyoto in Japan. His main interest is the later novels of William Faulkner, especially A Fable. His publications include “Between Allegory and History: Reading William Faulkner’s A Fable” (2018). He also edited William Faulkner and the Figure of Aging (2016).

Pei-Wen Clio Kao is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of National Ilan University, Taiwan (ROC). Her research specialties lie in Conrad studies, Faulkner studies, and literary modernism. She has published articles on modernist writers, Conrad, and Faulkner in international journals and in international book series.

Donald Kartiganer taught in the Department of English, University of Washington 1964–1991. He was named the Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi in 1991 and was the Director of the Faulkner Conference 1994-2009. He has co-edited eight books, including seven Faulkner Conference volumes and Theories of American Literature. A monograph was serialized in two numbers of The Massachusetts Review (Spring 1971 and Fall 1971) "Process and Product: A Study of Modern Literary Form": W.C Williams, Paterson, T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, and William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! In addition to the thirty critical essays on Faulkner leading up to and beyond The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels (1979), he has explored some of the major modernist writers: Philip Roth (four essays), Franz Kafka (three essays), Freud in a couple of essays, and Kierkegaard in two essays on Fear and Trembling and Repetition.

Mary A. Knighton is professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, where she teaches and researches modern American and Japanese literature and culture. Her essays have appeared in Southern Cultures, Faulkner and Print Culture, Faulkner and Money, the Mark Twain Journal, and Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives. Her current book project, supported by an ACLS/NEH/SSRC Fellowship and KAKEN Scientific Grant-in-Aid #17K02663, focuses on insects in Japanese literature and culture.

Hyo Seon Kim is a lecturer and film critic in South Korea. She earned a PhD from Seoul National University with a dissertation on the soil in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. Recently, she completed her fellowship research titled “Scenes of Poverty: 1929–1941,” which examines the ontological significance of American modernist portrayals of landscapes and sharecroppers’ lives during the Great Depression.

Ana Lampton began producing the documentary Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead in 2017. She focused primarily on building the production team by cultivating professional relationships and maintaining a network of industry experts. At the forefront of her desire to produce this documentary is her strong belief that Mississippi’s stories should be told by Mississippians.
She lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her two daughters, Lilly and Dot, and her husband, Taylor.

Camille Le Gall is a French PhD student at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. She is writing a thesis on the translation and retranslation of marginal voices in French, in four novels from the South of the United States. She focuses on the translation of sociolects and idiolects, of their poetic and political dimensions and of the timeline of translation and retranslation in regards to these issues.

Dr. Mengyu Li is professor of comparative literature from Ocean University of China. Her research centers on Faulkner and Chinese Writers. She is the author of William Faulkner and the Chinese Writers in the New Period (2024), The Comparative Study of Shen Congwen and Faulkner’s Novels in Multidimensional Perspectives (2009) Her new book William Faulkner and Chinese literature from 1978 to 2022 will be published in 2025. She is now the senior visiting scholar at the Center for Faulkner Studies of the Southeast Missouri State University and doing Faulkner poetry research  under the guidance of professor Robert Hamblin.

Peter Lurie is the author Vision’s Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (2004) and American Obscurantism: History and the Visual in American Literature and Film (2018) and the editor, with Ann J. Abadie, of Faulkner and Film (2014). His current project, Black Evanescence: Seeing Racial Difference from the Slave Narrative to Digital Media, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2025.

Anne MacMaster is professor of English and E. B. Stewart Professor of Language and Literature at Millsaps College, where she directs the women’s and gender studies program. Her essays on Faulkner have appeared in the Faulkner Journal and Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, and, with Anita DeRouen, she has contributed an essay to the collection Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence.

Anita Modak-Truran is the executive producer of Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, the first documentary to explore the impact of Faulkner’s work on today’s conversation on race, civil rights, and community. She heads Butler Snow’s Entertainment and Media Industry Group in the Nashville office. She has served as adjunct professor at University of Mississippi School of Law teaching contract drafting, negotiations and entertainment law.

Sharon Monteith is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and History at Nottingham Trent University and a fellow of the British Academy. Her publications focus on southern studies and social movements. In 2022, her book SNCC’s Stories: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Civil Rights South received the C. Hugh Holman award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature and the American Studies prize from the European Association of American Studies.

Arinori Mori is professor in the School of Global Studies, Chukyo University. He is the coauthor of William Faulkner’s Visit to Japan: A Cold War Politics and Literature (2022), and coeditor and cotranslator of Joel Williamson’s William Faulkner and Southern History (2020).

Fallon Murphy is a PhD Student in American studies at Boston University researching African American literature, new formalism, modernist studies, and digital humanities. She has presented her research at conferences including MLA, ALA, and SHARP.

Rebecca Nisetich is an associate professor and director of the Honors Program at the University of Southern Maine. Her articles have appeared in African American Review, the Faulkner Journal, Studies in American Naturalism, two essay collections on William Faulkner, and an anthology on Kate Chopin. She currently serves as coeditor of the Faulkner Journal and copresident of the William Faulkner Society.

Erin Penner is associate professor of English at Asbury University. She is the author of Character and Mourning: Woolf, Faulkner, and the Novel Elegy of the First World War and has been an editor for Digital Yoknapatawpha since 2012. She is currently finishing a book on swearing soldiers and suffragettes.

Julia Phillips is the bestselling author of the novel Disappearing Earth, a finalist for the National Book Award, and one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year. Her second novel, Bear, will be published in June. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Phillips has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Paris Review. She is on the board of the Crime Victims Treatment Center, a nonprofit that helps people heal from violence. She teaches in the Randolph College MFA program and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Conor Picken is associate professor of English at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. His teaching and research focus on American literature, southern literature, postmodernism, and social change. He is coeditor of Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South.

Ron Rash is the author of twenty books of poetry and fiction, including the New York Times bestselling novel Serena. He is a two-time PEN/Faulkner finalist, a three-time O. Henry Short Story Prize winner, and a Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award winner. His books have been translated into eighteen languages. He teaches at Western Carolina University.

Andrew Reynolds is an associate professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a specialist on the poetry of Osip Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky and is currently completing books on both of these authors. He is also a translator of Russian prose, poetry, and opera, and is currently working on an annotated translation of Mandelstam’s Voronezh Notebooks.

Riché Richardson is professor of African American literature in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Public Books, and Huff Post, and her interviews in news media such as NBC’s Today Show and Nightly News, CNN, and Al Jazeera’s Newshour. Her books include Black Masculinity and the US South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta and Emancipation’s Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body, the 2022 recipient of the C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.

Ben Robbins is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck and project leader of “Networked Narratives: Queer Exile Literature 1900–1969,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). He is the author of Faulkner’s Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and Screen (2024) and essays in the Journal of Screenwriting, the Faulkner Journal, Genre, Studies in American Culture, and in the edited collections Hipster Culture and Digitizing Faulkner.

Douglas Robinson, after twenty-one years in the English Department at the University of Mississippi, has spent the last fourteen years in China, lately as professor of translation studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is author of more than thirty monographs on translation theory, literary theory, rhetorical theory, and semiotics.

Carl Rollyson, professor emeritus of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY, is the author of Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner, The Life of William Faulkner, William Faulkner Day by Day, and the forthcoming Faulkner on and off the Page: Essays in Biographical Criticism.

Claude Romano is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He is the author or editor of nearly two dozen books, including Le Chant de la vie: Phénoménologie de Faulkner [The Song of Life: Phenomenology of Faulkner] (2005), and his essays on Faulkner have been published in Esprit and Cycnos: Études anglophones. He has held visiting professorships in Belgium, Italy, Chile, Portugal, Lebanon, Australia, and the US. In 2020 he was awarded the Grand Prix de Philosophy from the French Academy.

Jonathan Rose is professor of law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar Emeritus at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. His primary scholarly interests involve medieval English legal history. He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He wrote his undergraduate honors thesis on Faulkner, in whom he has a longstanding interest.

Wendy Rose was born and raised in Minneapolis. She graduated from Arizona State University with a BA in English and taught elementary school in Tempe, Arizona, for twenty-one years. She has been retired for seventeen years, but as Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

Brock Rustin is an English PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. His dissertation focuses on the interplay between time, voyeuristic queer children, and Black and queer ghosts of the southern gothic. He teaches rhetoric and composition to international graduate students at CGU and to undergraduates at the University of La Verne.

Tim A. Ryan is professor of English at Northern Illinois University. He specializes in modernist, southern, and African American literature, with particular focus upon the interconnections between popular music and canonical literature. He is the author of Yoknapatawpha Blues: Faulkner’s Fiction and Southern Roots Music (2015).

Jon Sands is the Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona.

Jenna Grace Sciuto is a professor of English at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her first book, Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, was published in 2021. Her second book, exploring colonial liminality and intersecting identities in US southern and Icelandic literatures, is forthcoming next year.

Howard Seftel served in the Peace Corps and did PhD work in American studies at the University of California, Berkeley; he moved into journalism and became the restaurant critic for the Arizona Republic.

C. Lee Shell is a scholar and teacher who earned a BA and MA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. A student of modernism and regionalism in American literature, he has presented papers to the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta in 2000. Shell instructs language, literature, and rhetoric courses at Georgia Northwestern Technical College and Ringgold High School.

Ellen Shelton is director of the University of Mississippi Writing Project as well as the interim director of the University of Mississippi Writing Center and a lecturer in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. She taught secondary English in Mississippi for fifteen years and has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses for a lot longer.

Frédérique Spill is professor of American literature at the University of Picardy–Jules Verne in Amiens, France. She is the author of Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap (2024) and The Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash’s Writing (2019). She coedited The Wagon Moves: New Essays on “As I Lay Dying,” as well as the spring 2018 issue of the Faulkner Journal. She has also published articles on a variety of contemporary American authors.

Harilaos Stecopoulos is professor of English at the University of Iowa. He has published two monographs, Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and US Imperialisms, 1898–1976 (2008) and Telling America’s Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy (2022), and one edited collection, A History of the Literature of the US South (2021). He is currently at work on a new study, “The Heat of Modernity: US Modernism and the Energy Economy.”

Laura Stiffler is a PhD candidate at the University of Rhode Island, where she specializes in US modernist literature, African American literature, and the Black Arts movement. Her research interests include cognitive psychoanalysis; ethnicity, race, and Indigenous studies; and the notion of identity including gender, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism. Much of Stiffler’s current research seeks to translate James Baldwin’s project into a critical apparatus to further examine artists like William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison. This work is grounded in the ideas of endurance, survival, and bearing witness. Prior to arriving at URI, she received her master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2020.

Stephanie Eyrolles Suchet is a teacher, holder of the agrégation, a French high-level competitive exam. She received her PhD from the University of Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines in 2016. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century southern literature, especially in William Faulkner’s work, but also Jesmyn Ward’s. She has published academic articles in national and international journals and participated in national and international colloquiums.

Koichi Suwabe is associate professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo. His publications include William Faulkner’s Poetics: 1930–1936 (2008), which received the Shimizu Hiroshi award from the Japanese Association for American Studies, along with monographs on the American novel, noir fiction, Raymond Chandler, and Kurt Vonnegut, and edited collections including Faulkner and Japanese Literature (2019) and An Introduction to American Literature, now in its second edition (2023). He is also the translator of recent Japanese editions of Flags in the Dust (2021) and Light in August (2016).

Aurore Touya studied literature at the École Normale Supérieure, wrote her master’s thesis at the University of California, Berkeley (2007) and went on to earn a PhD in comparative literature from the Sorbonne University (2012). Since 2018 she has been editor of foreign fiction at Gallimard, a publishing house based in Paris.

Theresa M. Towner is Ashbel Smith Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, the author of three books on Faulkner, and the editor of Digitizing Faulkner and the recently published Library of America volume William Faulkner: Stories. She is codirector of the Digital Yoknapatawpha project.

Candace Waid is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Edith Wharton’s Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing, The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner’s Art, the forthcoming Cannibal Capital: Hellman’s Foxes “Getting Southern” (1939–1946), and a related monograph on “Lillian Hellman and Lewis Milestone’s Other South: Mid-Century Ukraine.”

Michael Wainwright has long held the position of honorary research associate with the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Previous appointments have included visiting lectureships at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and the University of Birmingham. His monographs include Darwin and Faulkner’s Novels (2008), The Rational Shakespeare (2018), and Faulkner’s Ethics (2021).

Jay Watson is Distinguished Professor of English and Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he has served since 2011 as director of Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha.

Father Manuel Williams has served as director of Resurrection Catholic Missions of the South, Inc. and pastor of Resurrection Catholic Church in Montgomery, Alabama, since 1990. He received a BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1979 and an MDiv in 1987 from Aquinas Institute of Theology, where he is currently pursuing a DM in in preaching. He preaches revivals and missions throughout the US, specializing in African American Catholic spirituality and history.

Laura Wilson received her PhD in English from the University of Mississippi in 2020 and was a 2020–22 CLIR Postdoctoral fellow at Fisk University. She has published on Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston and has a forthcoming chapter in the Queer Faulkner collection on “Divorce in Naples.”

Randall Wilhelm is associate professor of English at Anderson University in Anderson, South Carolina. His recent essays on Faulkner have appeared in Faulkner and Slavery and in Mississippi Quarterly’s special issue on “Faulkner and World War I.” He is the editor of The Ron Rash Reader, Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash, and Conversations with Robert Morgan.

Robert A. Winkler is an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He received his PhD from the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at the University of Giessen, Germany, in 2019 with a dissertation on race and gender in hardcore punk. His second book project is about the “cabin” in American cultural and literary history.

Yuko Yamamoto is associate professor of American literature at Chiba University, Japan. She is the author of Faulkner’s Late Style: Its Development and Metamorphosis (2023). Her article “‘The Family of Man’: Willian Faulkner, Atomic Diplomacy, and US Visual Education in Post-Occupation Japan” appears in Faulkner’s Families (2023).

Michael Zeitlin is professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the author of Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War (2022).

Shiyu Zhang is a third-year PhD student at the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen. His thesis focuses on forms of ritual—lynching, hunting, and suicide—in William Faulkner’s fiction. He completed both his MA and BA at Xi’an International Studies University, China, majoring in English language and literature.

Optional Tours - Thursday, July 25

In-person attendees will be given an opportunity to spend a day touring one of the areas listed below. All tours depart from Oxford at 9:00 a.m. and return around 3:30 p.m. except where noted. The tours are optional and are available for an additional fee of $120, which includes lunch.

Oxford/Lafayette County: This tour, led by Jay Watson, moves throughout Oxford/Jefferson and Lafayette/Yoknapatawpha County to visit a number of homes, buildings, and other sites associated with Faulkner’s life and writings. Some walking is required.

The Mississippi Delta: This tour, led by Scott Barretta, consists of a circuitous drive to Clarksdale by way of Charleston, Sumner, and Tutwiler. The tour focuses not only on the hunting camps of Faulkner’s fiction but also on the music of the Delta, the Mississippi blues. The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale is the centerpiece of our visit there. After lunch, we wind our way back to Oxford and usually return between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m.

African American Heritage in Lafayette County: Led by Rhondalyn Peairs, this tour visits significant sites in the African American histories of Oxford and Lafayette County.

ABOUT THE TEACHING WORKSHOP, TUESDAY, JULY 23: “PULP FAULKNER”
William Faulkner has long been presented as a Great American Writer, featured in AP English classes, and used as a kind of literary gatekeeper for high school and college students alike. Students are frequently mystified by this version of Faulkner and react with shame, anger, and dismissal. What if, instead, we read Faulkner in the varied print cultures of his cultural moment, particularly his engagements with popular forms? How, through this engagement with print culture, might our students draw connections between his cultural moment and their own?

This in-person workshop considers the pedagogical benefits of embracing “pulp” Faulkner in his varied modes of print—in popular magazines, pulp paperback reprints, sensationalist “modern” presses—and in conversation with various genres, including mysteries, “women’s fiction,” gangster novels, and sex paperbacks. We will use Faulkner and Print Culture as a grounding text and meet in the Faulkner Room of the Special Collections division of the J. D. Williams Library to look at Signet reprints and issues of the many magazines that published Faulkner’s short fiction, paying attention to surrounding advertisements, companion articles, and other contextual information. We will consider how this material might inform our own teaching of Faulkner and brainstorm lesson plans and assignments.

Participants will be emailed materials before the conference. In the workshop, we will engage in facilitated conversation and end with a general discussion about teaching strategies.

To register, go to the Google form at tinyurl.com/pulpfaulkner. Inquiries should be directed to Jaime Harker at jlharker@olemiss.edu. This workshop is not available to remote registrants.

Sponsors
The Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi is sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and coordinated by the Division of Outreach and Continuing Studies.

University Museum Exhibition
During the conference week the University Museum is hosting several temporary exhibits to complement its permanent collection. Magic Lanterns is an immersive exhibit containing prints of astronomical and astrological imagery sourced from 1860s magic lantern slides from the Millington-Barnard Collection of Scientific Instruments. Magic lanterns, a predecessor of modern slide projectors, were used to swindle, entertain, and enchant their audiences for hundreds of years before the advent of moving pictures. Continued Artistry features Choctaw basket weaving, an important traditional artistry that has been practiced for centuries. Choctaw baskets were first created primarily for utilitarian use and came in myriad shapes and sizes to serve different functions. While production and common use has dwindled in the past century, Native weavers continue the tradition, passing their skill to the next generation. Most contemporary Choctaw basket weavers are still based in Mississippi.

Museum hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, see the museum’s website at museum.olemiss.edu.

Library Displays
The Department of Archives and Special Collections has several exhibits of interest to conference attendees. In addition to showcasing rare and fascinating works from the collections, the exhibit More than Words: The Book as Object features a number of Faulkner works. Another display celebrates this year of Faulkner anniversaries. The department is located on the third floor of the J. D. Williams Library and is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information, please contact archivesdept@olemiss.edu or call 662-915-1595. 

Annual Display of University Press Books
Books published by the University Press of Mississippi and select other members of the American Association of University Presses will be exhibited from Sunday, July 21, through Wednesday, July 24, in Music Building 148. Books from Violet Valley Bookstore in Water Valley, Mississippi, will also be on display at the exhibit on Monday, July 22 and Tuesday, July 23.

Gifts
Gifts from the William Faulkner Society, as well as donations in memory of John W. Hunt, Faulkner scholar and emeritus professor of literature at Lehigh University, have been made to support the conference and the John W. Hunt Scholar at this year’s conference.

2024 Registration Fees & Information

In-Person

The registration fee for in-person conference attendance is $150 for students and $300 for other participants. The fee includes admission to all program events, a buffet supper on Sunday, lunch on Monday, a picnic at Rowan Oak on Wednesday, conference session refreshments, and a closing reception on Thursday. The fee does not cover lodging, the optional guided tours of Faulkner Country, or meals, except for those previously mentioned.

Zoom

For international scholars, instructors, students, and other Faulkner lovers unable to attend in person, there is also a remote option that will allow you to attend conference sessions online via Zoom.  Registration for the remote option is $50 for students and $100 for other participants and does not include social events.

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Student Group Discount Package.

A registration discount is offered for student groups of five or more attending the conference. The package includes a reduced conference registration fee of $100 for all student members; the designated group leader will receive a complimentary registration. Accommodations, travel, and meals (other than those covered by the conference registration fee) are the responsibility of the individual. To initiate a group registration, please contact Mary Leach at pdlljac@olemiss.edu or 662-915-7847.

A limited number of registration-fee waivers are available for graduate students who are not presenting work at the conference but are interested in attending. Contact Jay Watson, director, at jwatson@olemiss.edu for details.

Refunds. A refund will be made, less a $20 service charge per registration, for conference registrants who cancel their plans by July 11. No refunds will be made after that date. To initiate a cancellation request, please contact Mary Leach at  pdlljac@olemiss.edu or 662-915-7847.

Registration Instructions

Should you have any questions or encounter any issues during the registration process, please contact Mary Leach at 662-915-7847 or pdlljac@olemiss.edu

• Commemorative posters and t-shirts can be ordered separately or as an add-on to your registration.
• Only one participant can register at a time.
• Please have your credit card available when you begin the registration process. You will pay at the end of the registration process.
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Conference Details

ACCOMMODATING SPECIAL NEEDS

If you require assistance relating to a disability or have special dietary requirements, please contact Mary Leach at pdlljac@olemiss.edu or 662-915-7847 at least fourteen days prior to the conference.

LODGING

On-campus lodging is available at the Inn at Ole Miss, which offers special conference rates. Lodging in and near Oxford is available at hotels and other facilities. Conference participants should make their own reservations. Visit this page for more information about local lodging options.

Please note that on-campus housing in University of Mississippi Contemporary Halls will not be available for the conference dates.

TRANSPORTATION

Those who plan to fly to the conference should book their flights to and from Memphis (Tennessee) International Airport (MEM). From Thursday, July 18, to Sunday, July 28, the Division of Outreach offers a shuttle service for conference participants who arrive at the Memphis International Airport (approximately 75 miles or 1 hour and 15 minutes drive).

The cost of the shuttle is $145 round trip or $95 one way. Shuttle reservations must be made and paid for at least seven business days in advance.

If you would like to use the Division of Outreach shuttle service, please contact the Transportation Office, Division of Outreach and Continuing Education, via email at shuttle@olemiss.edu no later than July 8, 2024, to make your reservation. Your email must include the following information:

• Subject line: Faulkner Conference
• Name of Passenger(s)
• Flight date(s)
• Flight number(s)
• Flight arrival/departure time(s)
• Passenger’s cell phone #
• Passenger’s email
• Location at which to be dropped off or picked up in Oxford

Shuttles will be confirmed via email by Tuesday, July 16. Please meet your shuttle driver inside the airport at Baggage Claim, Area B escalator.

N.B. Times listed above are subject to change after July 16.

Should your arriving flight be delayed, please call the Transportation After Hours phone at 662-816-7165 and if necessary, leave a voicemail message with your name and new arrival time. If you are unable to meet the next shuttle(s) you will be required either to stay over in Memphis and take the 10:00 a.m. shuttle the next day, if available, or to rent a car.

Faulkner Posters

Flat copies of Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference posters with illustrations are available for $5 each plus tax, shipping, and handling. To order posters, please email pdlljac@olemiss.edu with the quantity and poster(s) you are interested in purchasing.

Special Thanks

The 2024 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference poster is produced through the generous support of the City of Oxford and the Oxford Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The conference organizers are grateful to all the individuals and organizations that support Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha annually, and they offer special thanks this year to the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of English, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi Libraries, University Museums, the City of Oxford, and the Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau.