Speakers

Hosam Aboul–Ela is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariategui Tradition and a translation from the Arabic of the novel, Distant Train, by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid.

Susan V. Donaldson is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914 and co–editor of Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, and the author of over fifty articles and book chapters, largely on writers of the South.

Richard Godden is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of three critical studies, two of them on Faulkner: Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution and William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words.

Michael Gorra is Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College. He has published four books: The English Novel at Mid–Century, After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie, The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany, and The Portable Conrad. His Norton Critical Edition of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying will be published this fall.

Donald M. Kartiganer is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi and Director of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference. In addition to his work on Faulkner, he has published articles and book chapters on a number of modernist writers and theorists, including Conrad, T.S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, Kafka, Hemingway, Welty, Philip Roth, Freud, Kierkegaard, and the critic Murray Krieger.

Sean McCann is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Faculty Career Development at Wesleyan University. He is the author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government and Gumshoe America: Hard–Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism.

Noel Polk is Professor Emeritus of English at Mississippi State University and editor of The Mississippi Quarterly. He is the author or editor of over a dozen volumes, including Outside the Southern Myth, Children of the Dark House, Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work, and Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition, and he is co–author of Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury.

Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College. He is the author of five critical studies, including Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns, What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison, and Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction. His new book, Becoming Faulkner, will be published in 2010.

Additional speakers and panelists will be selected from the “Call for Papers” Competition.

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