2021: Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence

Keynote Lecture

Susan V. Donaldson, College of William and Mary

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2:30 PM

Keynote Lecture

Jerry W. Ward Jr., Tougaloo College

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4:30 PM

Ann J. Abadie Lecture

Natasha Trethewey, Northwestern University

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7:30 PM

Racial and Environmental Crossings in Faulkner and Wright

Laura Wilson
William C. Palmer, University of Mississippi
Candace Waid, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pei-Wen Clio Kao, National Ilan University

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8:00 AM

Remapping Southern Geographies

W. Ralph Eubanks, University of Mississippi
Gary Richards, University of Mary Washington
Andrea Dimino, New College of Florida
Hayley Wilson

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9:30 AM

Mississippi Writers Then and Now: A Crowded Landscape of Mutual Hauntings

Julia Eischelberger
Rebecca Mark, Tulane University
Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston
Sarah Ford, Baylor University

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11:00 AM

Collecting Faulkner

Seth Berner

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12:30 PM

Keynote Lecture

Suzanne Marrs

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2:00 PM

Wright, Faulkner, Aesthetics, and Propaganda

Sharon L. Jones
John Wharton Lowe, University of Georgia
Anthony Dyer Hoefer, George Mason University

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3:30 PM

Virtual Cocktail Hour

Conference Attendees

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5:00 PM

Screening: The Past is Never Dead

Michael Modak-Truran

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8:00 PM

Archival Discoveries and Developments

Benjamin Alexander
April Blevins
Forrest Galey, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Ryoichi Yamane, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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8:00 AM

Racial Violence and Social Death in Faulkner and Wright

Anne Bull
Ahmed Honeini, Royal Holloway. University of London
Bernard Joy, University of Glasgow

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9:30 AM

Keynote Lecture

Julia Wright

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11:00 AM

Navigating Faulkner’s World Through Digital Yoknapatawpha: New Features and Updates

Stephen Railton, University of Virginia
John Padgett, Brevard College
Erin Penner, Asbury University
Johannes Burgers, Ashoka University
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas

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12:30 PM

Reparative Teaching: Faulkner, Welty, and Wright in the Antiracist Classroom

Ebony Lumumba, Jackson State University
Rebecca Nisetich, University of Southern Maine

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2:00 PM

Crime Fiction, Prison Studies, and The P.O.

Jacob Agner, University of Mississippi
Adrienne Akins Warfield, Mars Hill University
Donnie McMahand, Towson University
Kevin Murphy, Towson University

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3:30 PM

Virtual Cocktail Hour

Conference Attendees

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5:00 PM

Teaching Faulkner, Welty, and Wright

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Jennie Joiner, Keuka College
Brian McDonald, School District of Lancaster (Penn.)
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Knox College
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas

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8:00 AM

Regional Markings: Vision, Gender, and Style

Carol Ann Johnston, Dickinson College
Judy Butterfield
Michał Choiński, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University

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9:30 AM

Screening: Almos' a Man

Malcolm Wright

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11:00 AM

Going Digital, Going Modern, and Going to Jackson: Changing Media, Mode, and Mind in Faulkner, Welty, and Wright

Michael Pickard
Rae Switzer, Millsaps College
Michael Gleason, Millsaps College
Anita DeRouen, Millsaps College
Anne MacMaster, Millsaps College

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12:30 PM

Radicality in Faulkner, Welty, and Wright

Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
Phillip Gordon, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
David McWhirter, Texas A&M University
Christopher Curran, University of North Georgia

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2:00 PM

Virtual Cocktail Hour

Conference Attendees

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3:30 PM