2013: Faulkner and the Black Literature of the Americas

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 Z78321137 2013.

Posters are available for purchase from the University of Mississippi.

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Schedule
2013
Sunday, July 21st
1:00 PM

Portraits as Landscapes, Landscapes as Portraits: Yoknapatawpha County in the 1960s

Alain Desvergnes

University Museum

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

On Faulkner and the Liberal Imagination

Kenneth Warren

Nutt Auditorium

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Roundtable: Noel Polk. An Appreciation and Remembrance

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Richard Godden, University of California, Irvine
Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Mississippi
Peter Lurie, University of Richmond
Thomas L. McHaney, Georgia State University
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas
Lorie Watkins, William Carey University

Nutt Auditorium

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Welcome, Award Presentations, Poetry Reading

Morris Stocks, University of Mississippi
George "Pat" Patterson, University of Mississippi
Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University
James G. Thomas, University of Mississippi
Chiyuma Elliott, University of Mississippi
Derrick Harriell, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

7:30 PM

Monday, July 22nd
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner I: "Done Been Abolished". Faulkner's Racial Agenda(s)

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

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. If We Must Write. DuBois, McKay, Ellison, Faulkner

Erin Kay Penner, Asbury University
Dotty Dye, Arizona State University
Joseph Fruscione, George Washington University

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. William Faulkner, African American Writing, and "New Literary Souths"

Chad Jewett, University of Connecticut
John Wharton Lowe, University of Georgia
Cheryl Lester, University of Kansas

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

Collecting Faulkner's Most Splendid Failure: The Sound and the Fury

Seth Berner

Yerby Center Auditorium

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Lingering in the Black: Faulkner's Illegible Modernist Sound Melding

Thadious M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Mobile Identities in and After Faulkner: Modernity, Transgression, and Liberation in Faulkner's Black Literary Heirs

Peter Lurie, University of Richmond
Ben Robbins, Freie Universität Berlin
Melanie Masterton, University of California, Riverside

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner on the Fringe

Conference Attendees

Southside Gallery

8:00 PM

Tuesday, July 23rd
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner II. Stories of African Americans: "Dry September," "That Evening Sun," "Red Leaves," "Centaur in Brass"

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas
Brian McDonald, Pennsylvania State University

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Revisioning Miscegenation and Trauma in Faulkner and the African American South

Andrew Leiter, Lycoming College
Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University
Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Faulkner and Contemporary Haitian Women Writers

Jenna Sciuto, Northeastern University
Sharron Eve Sarthou, Rust College
Carrie Helms Tippen, Texas Christian University

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

2:00 PM

The Street Ran Through Cities: Faulkner and the Early African American Migration Narrative

James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Go to Jail About This Spoonful: Narcotic Determinism and Human Agency in "That Evening Sun" and the Delta Blues

Tim Ryan, Northern Illinois University

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Clark/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:30 PM

Wednesday, July 24th
8:00 AM

Panel. Du Bois and Faulkner

Rebecca B. Clark, University of California, Berkeley
T. Austin Graham, Columbia University
Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Genre, Pedagogy, Labor: Deepening the Conversation

Jacob Agner, University of Mississippi
Amritjit Singh, Ohio University
Sascha Morrell, University of New England

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Faulkner and Morrison

Meredith Kelling, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Doreen Fowler, University of Kansas
Maia Butler, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

2:00 PM

Tracking Faulkner in the Paths of Black Modernism

George Hutchinson, Cornell University

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Faulkner and Contemporary Black Writers

Natalie Aikens, University of Mississippi
Matthew Dischinger, Louisiana State University
Dai Xiaoli, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Painting, Passing, and Periodicals: Faulkner and Twentieth-Century African American Culture

Randall S. Wilhelm, Clemson University
Stephanie Tsank, University of Iowa
Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose

Yerby Center Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Walk Through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

Picnic at Rowan Oak

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

6:00 PM

Thursday, July 25th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:30 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books

5:30 PM