Speakers

Martyn Bone is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction and editor of Perspectives on Barry Hannah, as well as essays on such writers as Richard Ford, Toni Cade Bamba, and Zora Neale Hurston

James Carothers is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. He is the author of William Faulkner’s Short Stories and co-author, with Thersa M. Towner, of Reading Faulkner: Collected Short Stories.

John Collins is artistic and technical director of Elevator Repair Service theater company, whose production, The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928), is currently being performed at the New York Theatre Workshop. In 2006 the company staged Gatz, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Thadious M. Davis is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context, Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Games of Property: Law, Race, Render, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.

Taylor Hagood is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. A recent Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi, he is the author of the volume, Faulkner's Imperialisms: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth, forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press.

Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition to several critical studies and editions in Renaissance studies, he is the author of Faulkner’s Narrative Poetics: Style as Vision and Go Down, Moses: The Miscegenation of Time, and editor of four volumes on Faulkner’s fictional families.

Owen Robinson is Lecturer in United States Literature in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. He is the author of Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner’s Fiction and co-editor of A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South.

Theresa M. Towner is Professor of Literary Studies, in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels, co-author, with James Carothers, of Reading Faulkner: Collected Short Stories, and author of a forthcoming volume The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner.

Ethel Young-Minor is Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of essays and reviews on Pedagogy in African-American Studies, the role of the ministry, and other topics related to African-American literature.

Additional speakers and panelists will be selected from the “Call for Papers” Competition