2007: Faulkner's Sexualities

A selection of the essays presented at this year’s conference is available from the University Press of Mississippi. It is also available from the University of Mississippi Libraries at this call number: PS3511.A86 Z7832113 2007, and as an e-book

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Schedule
2007
Sunday, July 22nd
1:00 PM

Faulkner Family Artistic Endeavors

Maud Falkner
John Faulkner

University Museums

1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Terra: A Delta Tango in Time

Lisa Bourdeaux Percy

Barnard Observatory

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

The Best Time They Never Had: Faulkner's Bored Women

Dawn Trouard, University of Central Florida

Johnson Commons

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Must've Been Some Kind of Love: Sexuality's Attachments in Faulkner

Deborah McDowell, University of Virginia

Johnson Commons

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Howorth Home/910 Old Taylor Rd.

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Welcome Session with Awards and Readings

Richard Howorth, City of Oxford
Joseph R. Urgo, University of Mississippi
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Mississippi
Roseanna Whitlow, Southeast Missouri State University
Patrick Abbott, Southeast Missouri State University
Lester Goodin
Betty Harrington
George Kehoe

Johnson Commons

7:30 PM

Monday, July 23rd
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner I: Emily, Minnie, Nancy, Elly, and Others: "Life in All Places Is Terrible For Women"

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas

Johnson Commons

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner II: Roles and Repressions in Faulkner's Sexualities: As I Lay Dying and The Unvanquished

Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College

Barnard Observatory

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner and Black Sexuality

John Duvall, Purdue University

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Collecting Faulkner

Seth Berner

Johnson Commons

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter: Male Homosexuality and Faulkner's Early Prose Writing

Gary Richards, University of New Orleans

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel I

David Madden, Louisiana State University
Michelle Moore
Gina Patnaik, University of California - Berkeley

Johnson Commons

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner, Marcuse, and Erotic Power

Michael Zeitlin, University of British Columbia

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

10:00 PM

Faulkner on the Fringe

Conference Attendees

Southside Gallery

10:00 PM

Tuesday, July 24th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Conference Attendees

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Noyes/Smith/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

And You Too, Sister Sister? Absalom, Absalom!, Lesbian Sexuality and the Reconstruction of the Southern Family

Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

Wednesday, July 25th
8:00 AM

Men and Women in Faulkner's World

Conference Attendees

Faulkner Room, J. D. Williams Library

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

Unhistoricizing Faulkner

Catherine Gunther Kodat, Hamilton College

Johnson Commons

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Panel II

Joel Dinerstein, Tulane University
Jennie J. Joiner, University of Kansas
Matt Low, University of Iowa

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Toward a Poetics of Eros: Modernist Asexuality Before The Hamlet

Peter Lurie, University of Richmond

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Faulkner in Oxford

Elizabeth Shiver
Harter Crutcher
Carl Downing
Byron Gathright
Mildred Murray Douglass Hopkins

Johnson Commons

3:00 PM

4:40 PM

Walk Through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

4:40 PM

5:30 PM

Picnic at Rowan Oak

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Popeye's Impersonal Temple

Michael Wainright, University of London

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

Thursday, July 26th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas
Charles A. Peek
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College

Johnson Commons

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Sexual Subordination, Trauma, and Resistance in Sanctuary and As I Lay Dying

Caroline Garnier, Morehouse College

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Panel III

Stephen D. Barnes, University of Dallas, Irving
Kristin Furjie, University of California - Berkeley
Chris Teepe, University of Albany

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

5:00 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

Willie and Katrina: Willie Morris in Oxford, The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

David Rae Morris
Willie Morris

Southside Gallery

6:00 PM