Events Archive
Explore some of the outstanding Faulkner-focused scholarship from WFS panels and presentations at past academic conferences.
Modern Language Association (MLA)
2026
“Faulkner’s Families / Family in Faulkner”
“Candace, Caddy, Cad—Compson?” Connor Bennett (University of Toronto)
“How the Bundren Women Lose Themselves: The Poetics of Darkness in As I Lay Dying” Nicholas Adler (Boston College)
“Familial Fractures, Capitalist Time, and Unsettled Reprieve: William Faulkner’s ‘BarnBurning,” Srimati Mukherjee (Temple University)
“The Discourse of Omission in Absalom, Absalom!” Jennifer Cranfill (University of Texas, Dallas)
2025
“Faulkner’s Visible Presence in Asia” by Jenna Sciuto, Pei-Wen Kao, Mengyu Li, and Yuko Yamamoto
“Seeing Faulkner in the Gulf South” by D. Matthew Ramsey, Ryan Heryford, Harilaos Stecopoulos, and Frederique Spill
2024
“William Faulkner, Black and Blue” by Frances Rowbottom, John Schranck, and Sarah Hopkinson
2023
“Doing the Work: Figuring the Lumpen, Subaltern, Refugee, and Provincial” by Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela, Caitlyn Hunter, and Evyn Lê Espíritu Gandhi
2022
“Faulkner and the Multilingual” by Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Stiffler, Bernard T. Joy, and David Mc Whirter
American Literature Association (ALA)
2025
“Faulkner and Fascism” by Alexander Miller, Trent Anderson, and Luke Folk
“Reappraising Faulkner” by Bryce Wallace, Peter Lurie, and Yuhua Tong
2024
“Faulkner’s Phenomenologies” by Bernard T. Joy, Fallon Murphy, and Mason Golden
2023
“The Compson Saga, Revisited” by Nia Judelson, Jordan Virtue, Filip Kritička, and Marie Shelton
2022
“Pedagogy and the Making of the Norton Critical Edition of Absalom, Absalom!” by Samantha Adams, Anaridia Molina, Maxim Molnar, Julia Stern, and Liza Tishchenko
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
2022
“Why Faulkner Now?” by Curtis Browne, Ahmed Honeini, Michał Choiński, and Rebecca Nisetich
The William Faulkner Society 