Events Archive

Explore some of the outstanding Faulkner-focused scholarship from WFS panels and presentations at past academic conferences.

2026

MLA

ALA

“Faulkner’s Families / Family in Faulkner” by Connor Bennett, Nicholas Adler, Srimati Mukherjee, and Jennifer Cranfill

ALA 2026 Conference Program

“Faulkner and Colors” by Sarah
Harrell, Kaiyue Hou, Peter Lurie, and Jennie Lightweis-Goff

“Faulkner Studies Today” by Tucker Conine and Amelia Cruz

2025

MLA

ALA

“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

ALA 2025 Conference Program

“Faulkner and Fascism” by Alexander Miller, Trent Anderson, and Luke Folk

“Reappraising Faulkner” by Bryce Wallace, Peter Lurie, and Yuhua Tong

2024

MLA

ALA

“William Faulkner, Black and Blue” by Frances Rowbottom, John Schranck, and Sarah Hopkinson

ALA 2024 Conference Program

“Faulkner’s Phenomenologies” by Bernard T. Joy, Fallon Murphy, and Mason Golden

2023

MLA

ALA

“Doing the Work: Figuring the Lumpen, Subaltern, Refugee, and Provincial” by Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela, Caitlyn Hunter, and Evyn Lê Espíritu Gandhi

ALA 2023 Conference Program

“The Compson Saga, Revisited” by Nia Judelson, Jordan Virtue, Filip Kritička, and Marie Shelton

2022

MLA

ALA

“Faulkner and the Multilingual” by Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Stiffler, Bernard T. Joy, and David Mc Whirter

ALA 2023 Conference Program

“The Compson Saga, Revisited” by Nia Judelson, Jordan Virtue, Filip Kritička, and Marie Shelton

2021

Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)

SSSL 2022 Conference Program

“Why Faulkner Now?” by Curtis Browne, Ahmed Honeini, Michał Choiński, and Rebecca Nisetich