The New William Faulkner Studies

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William Faulkner remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, and Faulkner Studies offers up seemingly endless ways to engage anew questions and problems that continue to occupy literary studies into the twenty-first century, and beyond the compass of Faulkner himself. His corpus has proved particularly accommodating of a range of perspectives and methodologies that include Black studies, visual culture studies, world literatures, modernist studies, print culture studies, gender and sexuality studies, sound studies, the energy humanities, and much else. The fifteen essays collected in The New William Faulkner Studies charts these developments in Faulkner scholarship over the course of this new century and offers prospects for further interrogation of his oeuvre.

Sarah Gleeson-White is Associate Professor in American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on William Faulkner, including William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays (2017), and her articles on Faulkner and early twentieth-century U.S. literature and film have appeared in such journals as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, and African American Review. Pardis Dabashi is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno, where she specializes in modernism, novel studies, and film studies. Her work has appeared in such venues as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, Public Books, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is currently completing her first book, which studies plot, ambivalence, and normativity in the modernist novel and popular film.