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FAULKNER’S FAMILIES William Faulkner's first home in Oxford.William Cofield Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries. The University of Mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference Oxford, Mississippi, July 21–25, 2019 The University of Mississippi announces the Forty-Sixth Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The conference 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 Education. For more information: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Division of Outreach and Continuing Education, Post Office Box 1848, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677. Telephone: 662-915-7283. Fax: 662-915-5138. Internet: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner Bronze busts of William Faulkner and Chickasaw chief Piomingo by William Beckwith; Photos by Robert Jordan / University Communications F&Y19Poster.indd 1 1/24/19 5:13 PM THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI ANNOUNCES THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL FAULKNER & YOKNAPATAWPHA CONFERENCE FAULKNER’S FAMILIES July 21–25, 2019 CONFERENCE PROGRAM KEYNOTE SPEAKERS and Consuming the American South, Stories If it seems almost outrageous to suggest John N. Duvall is Margaret Church of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American that one of the twentieth century’s most Distinguished Professor of English at Purdue Culture, and Southern Quarterly. Howard’s important literary cartographers of the University, where he is also the editor of documentary photography has appeared in private recesses of consciousness is also MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. Author of solo and group exhibitions in Europe and among its great novelists of family, William Faulkner’s Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, the US and been featured in numerous online Faulkner nonetheless fits the bill on both and Unspeakable Communities (1990), The and print publications. counts. Family played an outsized role in Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Caroline Levander is Carlson Professor both his life and his writings, often in deeply Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness in the Humanities and Vice President for problematic ways. A key organizational (2000), Don DeLillo’s “Underworld” (2002), Global and Digital Strategy at Rice University, and scalar unit of his creative work, family and Race and White Identity in Southern where she is also professor of English. A surfaces across his oeuvre in a dazzling Fiction (2008), he is also editor or coeditor prolific scholar of American literature, she range of distorted, distended, defamiliarized, of seven volumes of literary scholarship, is author of Voices of the Nation: Women and demystified, and transgressive forms, including Faulkner and His Critics (2010) and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American while on other occasions it is a crucible for Faulkner and Postmodernism (2002). Duvall Culture and Literature (1998), Cradle of Liberty: crushing forces of conformity, convention, has keynoted at several Faulkner conferences, Race, the Child, and National Belonging from and tradition. The forty-sixth annual Faulkner including “Faulkner and Women” (1985), Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois (2006), and Yoknapatawpha conference will examine “Faulkner and Gender” (1994), “Faulkner Where Is American Literature? (2013), and, Faulkner’s many families—actual and and Postmodernism” (1999), and “Faulkner’s most recently, Hotel Life: The Story of a Place imagined—as especially revealing windows Sexualities” (2007). His most recent Where Anything Can Happen, coauthored with onto his work and his world. In addition to appearance was at the “Faulkner and Money” Matthew Pratt Guterl (2015). A fifth book- five keynote lectures, the conference program conference in 2017. length study, “Laying Claim: Imagining Empire will include panel presentations, guided Katherine Henninger is associate professor on the U.S./Mexico Border,” is currently daylong tours of North Mississippi and the of English at Louisiana State University. A under contract with Oxford University Press. www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner Delta, and sessions on “Teaching Faulkner” keynoter at the “Faulkner and Material Culture” A leading figure in the digital humanities 662-915-5138 Fax led by James B. Carothers, University of conference in 2004, Henninger is author of and online education in the US, Levander 662-915-7283 Telephone Kansas; Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College; Ordering the Façade: Photography and the serves on the advisory council for the 38677-0879 MS University, Brian McDonald, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Politics of Representation in Contemporary Coursera consortium and the high-level policy Mississippi of University The • 1848 Box P.O. School District; Charles Peek, University of Southern Women’s Fiction (2007). Her essays committee for the edX platform. Education Continuing and Outreach of Office Nebraska at Kearney; and Theresa M. Towner, have appeared in American Literature, Arizona Hortense J. Spillers is Gertrude Conaway contact: conference, the concerning information more For University of Texas at Dallas. Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Vanderbilt Professor in the Department The conference will begin on Sunday, Quarterly, the Faulkner Journal, The Oxford of English at Vanderbilt University. A Bronze busts of William Faulkner and Chickasaw chief Piomingo by William Beckwith; Photos by Robert Jordan / University Communications University / Jordan Robert by Photos Beckwith; William by Piomingo chief Chickasaw and Faulkner William of busts Bronze Fax: 662-915-5138. Internet: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner Internet: 662-915-5138. Fax: Education, Post Office Box 1848, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677. Telephone: 662-915-7283. 662-915-7283. Telephone: 38677. MS University, Mississippi, of University The 1848, Box Office Post Education, July 21, with a reception at the University Handbook of Southern Literature, and the veteran of the 1998 and 2012 Faulkner and Continuing and Outreach of Division Conference, Yoknapatawpha and Faulkner information: more For coordinated by the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education. Continuing and Outreach of Division the by coordinated conference is sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and and Culture Southern of Study the for Center the and English of Department the by sponsored is conference The University of Mississippi announces the Forty-Sixth Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The The Conference. Yoknapatawpha and Faulkner Annual Forty-Sixth the announces Mississippi of University The Museum, after which the academic program Faulkner and Material Culture volume. She is Yoknapatawpha conferences, Spillers is 2019 21–25, July Mississippi, Oxford, Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference Yoknapatawpha & Faulkner of the conference will open with a keynote currently working on a book project entitled, author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on Mississippi of University The address and the program’s first scholarly “Made Strangely Beautiful: Southern Childhood American Literature and Culture (2003), which panel, followed by a buffet supper on the in US Literature and Film.” brings together such paradigm-shifting essays 2019 21–25, July grounds of Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak. as “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American John Howard is emeritus professor of arts Campus Oxford Over the next four days, a busy schedule Grammar Book,” “Interstices: A Small Drama and humanities at King’s College, London, Mississippi of University The of lectures and panels will also make room of Words,” and “‘The Permanent Obliquity Faulkner's first home in Oxford.William Cofield Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries. where he taught from 2001 to 2017. Now CONFERENCE for an afternoon cocktail reception, a picnic visiting professor of American studies at the of an In(ph)allibly Straight’: In the Time served at Rowan Oak, the guided tours, and a of the Daughters and the Fathers,” which YOKNAPATAWPHA AND FAULKNER University of Alabama, Howard is the author FAMILIES closing party on Thursday afternoon, July 25. of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History have become classics in the field of African ANNUAL FORTY-SIXTH Throughout the conference, the University’s (1999), Concentration Camps on the Home American studies. Spillers is also coeditor of FAULKNER’S J. D. Williams Library will display Faulkner Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim the pioneering essay collection, Conjuring: books, manuscripts, photographs, and Crow (2008), and Whited Sepulchres (2016), Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition memorabilia. The University Press of and editor of Carryin’ on in the Lesbian and (1985), and Comparative American Identities: 38677-1848 MS University, Mississippi will exhibit Faulkner books Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text Gay South (1997). His essays have appeared 1848 Box P.O. published by university presses throughout in Modern American Queer History, Southern (1991). Her essays on Faulkner have appeared the United States, and there will be a display, Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in in Faulkner and America, Fifty Years after Conference Faulkner 2019 with books for sale, by Faulkner collector the South since Reconstruction, Creating Faulkner, and Mississippi Quarterly. Seth Berner, who will also give a brown bag lunch presentation on “Collecting Faulkner.” Additional speakers and