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 2009, and as an e-book

Posters are available for purchase from the University of Mississippi.

Schedule

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2009
Sunday, July 19th
1:00 PM

Mississippi Delta Photographs and Other Recent Work

Maude Schuyler Clay

Barnard Observatory

1:00 PM

Original Stone Lithographs and Etchings of Faulkner’s “The Bear” and The Sound and the Fury

Boyd Saunders

University Museums

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

Faulkner's Plots

Michael Gorra, Smith College

Nutt Auditorium

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

The Blackness of Absalom, Absalom!

Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

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
Ivo Kamps, University of Mississippi
Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

7:30 PM

Monday, July 20th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner I: Some Mysteries of Faulkner's Short Stories

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

Nutt Auditorium

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Nice Believing: Mysteries and Mystery in Light in August

Sean McCann, Wesleyan University

Nutt Auditorium

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Collecting Faulkner

Seth Berner

Music Building Room 153

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

And You Are? Faulkner's Mysteries of Race and Identity

Philip Weinstein, Swarthmore College

Nutt Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel I

Kelley Hayden, University of Nevada, Reno
Daniel Pecchenino, University of California, Santa Barbara
Randall S. WIlhelm, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Writing "Crime" Fiction

Ace Atkins
Jere Hoar
Daniel Woodrell

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 PM

10:00 PM

Faulkner on the Fringe

Conference Attendees

Southside Gallery

10:00 PM

Tuesday, July 21st
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner II: As I Lay Missing: Mysterious Disappearances from the Texts

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

Nutt Auditorium

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Leg, Beyond, Mistral: Unsolved, Unsolvable

Noel Polk, Mississippi State University

Nutt Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Reading "Red" Leaves

Richard Godden, University of California, Irvine

Nutt Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel II

Margaret Rayburn Kramar, University of Kansas
Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Universidad Compultense de Madrid
Rachel Kathleen Watson, University of Chicago

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

Noyes/Smith/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:00 PM

Wednesday, July 22nd
9:00 AM

Reimagining the Femme Fatale: Requiem for a Nun and the Lessons of Film Noir

Susan V. Donaldson, College of William and Mary

Nutt Auditorium

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Panel III

John Padgett, Brevard College
Marta Puxan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Rachel Walsh, Stony Brook University

Nutt Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

The Mysterious Case of the Cold War Imaginary: Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust and Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky

Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston

Nutt Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel IV

Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas
Sarah Mahurin Mutter, Yale University
Conor Picken, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

Walk through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

Picnic at Rowan Oak

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Teaching Faulkner III

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

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 PM

Thursday, July 23rd
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Conference Attendees

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books

5:00 PM