Welcome to Yoknapatawpha County:

County seat Jefferson ... Home to the Compson, Sartoris, Sutpen, Stevens, Coldfield, Benbow, Grierson, Bundren, De Spain, and Snopes families ... Once inhabited, later ceded by the Chickasaw tribe, first settled by Europeans ca. 1811 ... Bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River, on the south by the Yoknapatawpha River ... Area 2400 square miles ... Population (ca. 1936): Whites, 6298, Negroes, 9313 ... Address of William Faulkner, RAF cadet, Nobel laureate, Sole Owner and Proprietor.

March 2008

2008 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference to focus on ‘The Returns of the Texts ’

The 35th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha conference, in keeping with the renewed attention to the formal dimension of literature, will focus on Faulkner’s fiction not as a reflection, a representation of historical and cultural forces, but as original response: a challenge to the power of external ideological systems to dictate textual expression.

The conference takes place at the University of Mississippi in Faulkner’s hometown of Oxford, Miss., on July 20-24, 2008. For more information on topics, speakers, and registration, please visit the official web site: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner.

Center for Faulkner Studies to host ‘Faulkner and Chopin’ Conference

“Faulkner and Chopin,” a conference sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Mo., will be held Oct. 2-4, 2008. This conference invites twenty-minute presentations on topics related to Faulkner and/or Kate Chopin. Suggested topics include race, gender, class, history, New Orleans, narrative technique, and the role of the artist. Papers on Faulkner and Chopin in the classroom are also encouraged.

In addition to the paper sessions, the conference will include a keynote address by Barbara C. Ewell, Dorothy Harrell Brown Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans; dramatic readings based on the works of Faulkner and Chopin; exhibits from the University’s Faulkner and Chopin collections; and an historic tour of the local area.

Interested participants should E-mail a 250-word abstract by April 30, 2008, to cfs@semo.edu. For more information contact the Center for Faulkner Studies.

Faulkner Society, E-mail discussion list information

The William Faulkner Society sponsors several scholarly presentations at the annual American Literature Conference in May and the Modern Language Association Conference in December. The society also sponsors other professional and financial incentives for scholars and graduate students. For more information, visit the society's website, faulknersociety.com.

Both scholars and non-scholars are invited to join the Faulkner Discussion Listserv by sending the message “subscribe faulkner” to md@listserv.olemiss.edu. For more information about the list, send the message “info faulkner” to the same address.

Faulkner dissertation on ‘War and History’ available

My doctoral dissertation, War and History in the Fiction of William Faulkner, is available for download or purchase online from Proquest.com. Click here to read the abstract and a free 24-page preview or to purchase a print or electronic version.

Questions about Faulkner's literary estate should be directed to Lee Caplin

If you have any questions regarding the licensing of Faulkner’s work for stage, screen, or any other commercial endeavor, you should contact Lee Caplin, the exclusive representative of the Faulkner literary estate. Caplin's website at www.pictureentertainment.com includes numerous ways in which to get in touch.

Other Selected Faulkner
Web Sites & Resources

The Mississippi Writers Page: William Faulkner (University of Mississippi Department of English)

The William Faulkner Foundation (Rennes University, Rennes, France)

The Center for Faulkner Studies (Southeast Missouri State University)
Includes online exhibits from the Brodsky Faulkner Collection and the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter

The William Faulkner Society (maintained by Society President John T. Matthews)
Includes membership information, announcements and calls for papers

The William Faulkner Society of Japan
Includes membership information, announcements and calls for papers, convention information, and the online Faulkner Journal of Japan

The Faulkner Journal (The University of Central Florida)
Includes subscription and submission information, current and back issue tables of contents, news and announcements

The Faulkner Email Discussion Group is open to students, scholars, and general readers of Faulkner. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe faulkner" to md@listserv.olemiss.edu.

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (Office of Outreach and Continuing Education, University of Mississippi)
Information about each year’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.

The William Faulkner Collections (Special Collections at University of Virginia Library)

The William Faulkner Collection/Rowan Oak Papers (Special Collections at University of Mississippi Library). Includes a brief history of the Ole Miss Faulkner Collection and an inventory of the so-called "Rowan Oak Papers," discovered in a broom closet beneath a stairway in Faulkner’s home in Oxford.

(See "The Carriage House" for more Faulkner-related web sites.)

Academic Departments at
The University of Mississippi

The Department of English

Center for the Study of Southern Culture

University of Mississippi Libraries

... And a few Miscellaneous Links

Light Rain in August:
Weather forecast for Yoknapatawpha County

As They Die Lying:
Ongoing web murder investigations by the "Yoknapatawpha County Law Enforcement Division."

The Wild Yarns: The Urban Legends Reference Pages, named for a family in Faulkner’s fiction, www.snopes.com.