Digital Yoknapatawpha in 2017 and Beyond

Nutt Auditorium

The Digital Yoknapatawpha project (http://faulkner.iath.virginia.edu) continues to grow. In this year’s three-part presentation, director Steve Railton will provide an update on progress and new features, and then ask for help from the attendees with the major new phase that, thanks to an NEH grant, we are undertaking over the coming year: creating search protocols to enable the project to serve the interests of scholars, teachers, students and Faulkner aficionados as fully as possible. John Corrigan will present a brief overview of the scholarship that the project team has produced thus far and sketch some ideas for further research and publication, from applications of the project’s current data-driven analysis to more theoretical considerations about Yoknapatawpha as a complex system. Lorie Watkins will demonstrate the project’s value as a pedagogical resource that supplements the way students engage Faulkner beyond the borders of the classroom.