Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference

FIFTY YEARS AFTER FAULKNER William Faulkner, 1962, Martin Faulkner, William J. Dain, Courtesy Martin J. Dain Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries The University of Mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference Oxford, Mississippi, July 7–11, 2012 The University of Mississippi announces the Thirty-Ninth 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 Office of Outreach and Continuing Education. For more information: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Office of Outreach and Continuing Education, Post Office Box 879, The University of Mississippi. University, MS 38677-0879. Telephone: 662-915-7283. Fax: 662-915-5138. Internet: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI ANNOUNCES THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL PAID Permit No. 6 U.S. Postage University, MS University, FAULKNER & YOKNAPATAWPHA CONFERENCE Org Non-Profit Fifty Years after Faulkner JULY 7–11, 2012 CONFERENCE PROGRAM David M. Earle, assistant professor of English at West Florida The 2012 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, “Fifty Years after University and author of Recovering Modernism. Faulkner,” will gather writers, teachers, and literary scholars for five Joseph Fruscione, adjunct professor of English at George Mason days of lectures and discussions reflecting on the author’s life, art, and University and author of Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a achievement from the vantage point of the half century since his death Literary Rivalry. in 1962. In addition to four keynote lectures, there will be numerous Matthew Pratt Guterl, Rudy Professor of American Studies and panel presentations (including a writers panel), guided daylong tours of History at Indiana University and author of The Color of Race in North Mississippi, the Delta, and Memphis, and sessions on “Teaching America, 1900–1940. Faulkner” by James B. Carothers, University of Kansas, Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College, Charles Peek, University of Nebraska at John Howard, professor of American Studies at King’s College, London, and author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History. PUS Kearney, and Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas at Dallas. E AM The conference will begin on Saturday, July 7, with the tour day. Gordon Hutner, professor of English at the University of Illinois, NC Formal ceremonies will commence on Sunday, July 8, with a reception author of What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960, C ERE ORD and editor of American Literary History. NF at the University Museum at which artist John Turner Shorb will F O introduce his featured exhibition Absalom, Absalom!, a series of X O Cheryl Lester, associate professor of English and American Studies at C , mixed-media works exploring the themes of memory and loss in the the University of Kansas and author of numerous essays on American A American South and finding a key source of inspiration in Faulkner’s literature and culture. WPH 1936 novel. ata ISSISSIPPI Olivia Milch wrote her M.A. thesis at Yale University on the history P After the Museum reception, the academic program will open L A and settlement of Oxford, Mississippi. She is currently adapting Light NA U M with a keynote address and panel presentation, followed by a buffet F OK O in August as a miniseries for HBO. NN supper and an evening schedule featuring the writers' panel, where Y Y A T D Chris Offutt and Olivia Milch will be joined by a third contemporary Sharon Monteith, professor of American Studies at the University H AN of Nottingham and author of Advancing Sisterhood? Interracial NT writer TBA to discuss Faulkner's work from a craft perspective. Over I IVERSI Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction. ER the next three days, a busy schedule of lectures and panels will also -N N N Y U T 7–11, 2012 make room for “Faulkner on the Fringe,” an open mike evening at the Richard Moreland, professor and chair of English at Louisiana ULK HIR HE A Southside Gallery, an afternoon cocktail reception, a picnic served State University, author of Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and ULY 2012 Faulkner Conference Box 879 P.O. MS 38677-0879 University, T F T J contact: the conference, concerning information For more and Continuing Education Office of Outreach Box 879 • The University of Mississippi P.O. MS 38677-0879 University, 662-915-7283 Telephone Fax 662-915-5138 www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner at Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, and a closing party on Wednesday. Rewriting, and editor of A Companion to William Faulkner. contact: For tourist information, Bureau Convention & Visitors Oxford 102 Ed Perry Boulevard MS 38655 Oxford, 800-758-9177 • 662-234-4680 Telephone Fax 662-234-0355 Throughout the conference, the University’s John Davis Library will Alan Nadel, William T. Bryan Professor of American Studies at the display Faulkner books, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia. University of Kentucky and author of Containment Culture: American The University Press of Mississippi will exhibit Faulkner books Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age. published by university presses throughout the United States, and there will be a display, with books for sale, by collector Seth Berner, Chris Offutt, author of six books, including the forthcoming story who will also give a brown bag lunch presentation on “Collecting collection Luck, teaches English and screenwriting at the University of Faulkner.” Mississippi. François Pitavy, emeritus professor of English at the University of SOUTHERN WRITERS, SOUTHERN WRITING Bourgogne and author of Faulkner’s "Light in August." GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Ramón Saldívar, Hoagland Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and author of The Borderlands of Culture: Américo The 18th annual Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate by scholar , addresses Conference is set for July 12–14, 2012, at the University of Mississippi. Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. Both critical and creative submissions will be accepted, dealing with Mab Segrest, Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies all aspects of Southern culture. Submissions to the conference are not at Connecticut College and author of Memoir of a Race Traitor and My limited to literary studies—we are interested in all interdisciplinary Mama’s Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture. The Reivers approaches to Southern culture. Deadline for submissions is 5:00 Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English p.m., April 2. Professor Suzanne Marrs (Millsaps College) will give at Vanderbilt University and author of Black, White, and in Color: the keynote lecture. Contact Victoria Bryan at swswgradconference@ Essays on American Literature and Culture. gmail.com for more information. available for $10.00 each plus $3.50 (2006) are Harilaos “Harry” Stecopoulos, associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of Reconstructing the World: Southern SPEAKERS Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898–1976. Ted Atkinson, associate professor of English at Mississippi State Terrell L. Tebbetts, Martha Heasley Cox Chair in American Literature University and author of Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, at Lyon College and editor of the Faulkner Journal’s special issue on Ideology, and Cultural Politics. “Faulkner in Contemporary Fiction.” Michael Bibler, lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Charles Reagan Wilson, Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Ripley and New Albany. from The Faulkners came to Oxford Commercial Appeal Manchester University and author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same- This is a look at Faulkner-connected and other historic structures Professor of Southern Studies, and author of Flashes of a Southern drive to Clarksdale by way of : This tour consists of a circuitous Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968. Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South. and Lafayette/ Oxford/Jefferson This tour moves throughout Deborah Clarke, professor of English at Arizona State University and Sally Wolff-King, adjunct professor of English at Emory University author of Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner. and author of Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten and open to the general public. For events will be free . All remembrance Deborah Cohn, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary. This tour begins at the National Civil Rights Museum housed in historic Indiana University and author of History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction Additional speakers and panelists will be selected from the “Call for Papers” Competition. David A. Davis, assistant professor of English at Mercer University The Reivers Also available are two posters with duotone photographs of William Faulkner, one Faulkner, two posters with duotone photographs of William Also available are with a check made Culture to the Center for Study of Southern Send all orders Philip Weinstein and author Randall Kenan, and a screening of the 1969 film adaptation and author Randall Kenan, a screening Philip Weinstein of at [email protected]. details, contact Jay Watson and author of numerous essays on Southern literature and culture. July 7 OPTIONAL TOURS: Saturday, All listed below. will be given an opportunity to spend a day touring one of the areas You noted. 3:30 p.m. except where around at 9:00 a.m. and return Oxford tours depart from and Lafayette County the Oxford is limited space on all tours, but specifically, There is limited to 45. The is limited to 25 and the Mississippi Delta Tour Tour Architectural available for an additional fee of $95, which must be prepaid optional and are tours are deposit of $50. registration in full along with the conference Oxford (overview): group. Architecture This tour will have lunch with the Oxford County. Yoknapatawpha Some walking is required. Oxford (architecture): community with a side trip for lunch. The tour includes visits in the Oxford-University the Also included are or four private homes and “curbside tours” of others.

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