President: Jay Watson, Professor of English at University of Mississippi; author of Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (1993) and essays on Faulkner, narrative theory, and new materialism.
Department of English, University of Mississippi, Bondurant Hall C128, P.O. Box 1848, University , MS 38677-1848
jwatson@olemiss.edu
Vice President: Deborah Clarke joined the Arizona State University English department in 2008, after spending 20 years at Penn State University. She earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Yale University. She is the author of Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner, which explores the ways in which Faulkner's women characters reflect a tension between the body and language, between the literal and figurative, and how that tension characterizes his creative vision. Her second book, Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America, deals with women and cars and was recently published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Deborah is also the author of numerous articles about Faulkner. She has been an active member of the Faulkner Society for 20 years.
Secretary-Treasurer: Ted Atkinson, Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University and the author of Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics(University of Georgia Press, 2006). Atkinson has published essays on William Faulkner in The Faulkner Journal and in A Companion to William Faulkner (Blackwell, 2007); he published an essay on John Faulkner's Dollar Cotton in Mississippi Quarterly. Forthcoming publications include essays in Faulkner: Returns of the Text, Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2008 (University Press of Mississippi) and Faulkner and Morrison (Southeast Missouri State University Press). Atkinson has also published essays on Erskine Caldwell, Larry Brown, and Lewis Nordan. His current book project examines representations of Mississippi as "the distilled South," a malleable and multivalent trope in cultural narratives from the Cold War to the present whose imagined geographies form in response to the realities of modernity.
Representatives at Large:
Leigh Anne Duck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She has published several essays on the work of William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and the study of "postplantation" literatures in venues including the Journal of American Folklore, American Literary History, and American Literature; her book, The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, was published in 2006. Her current research continues to examine the relationship between the modernism of the U.S. South and modernism in other locales and also considers how representations of the U.S. South serve as a site for understanding U.S. nationalism in the twenty-first century. She is further exploring how writers in the U.S. South and South Africa used the representation of consciousness as a way to articulate the cultural impacts of segregation and apartheid; to this end, she is an editorial board member of and contributor to Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies.
Taylor Hagood is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Faulkner’s Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth (2008), and his essays on Faulkner, African American literature, Walt Whitman, and the literature and culture of the United States South have appeared in African American Review, European Journal of American Culture, Faulkner Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, Studies in Popular Culture, Southern Literary Journal, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His current book project is tentatively entitled “Faulkner’s Broken Body: Disability, Mississippi, and the National Imagination.”
