Donald KartiganerDonald Kartiganer

[Curriculum Vita]

Professor of English & Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies

Office: Bondurant W209B
Phone: 662-915-5793
E-mail: dkartiga@olemiss.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Brown University (1960-64)
  • M.A., Columbia University (1959-60)
  • B.A., Brown University (1955-59)

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • William Faulkner
  • 20th-Century American Literature
  • Literary Theory/Modernism
  • Director of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • "'By it I Would Stand or Fall': Life and Death in As I Lay Dying," A Companion to William Faulkner, ed. Richard Moreland (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 429-44.
  • "Zuckerman Bound: The Celebrant of Silence," The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth, ed Timothy Parrish (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 35-51.
  • "Faulkner’s Comic Narrative of Community," A Gathering of Evidence: Essays on William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust ed. Michel Gresset and Patrick Samway, S.J. (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press and Fordham University Press,  2004), 131-49.    
  • "'Getting Good at Doing Nothing': Faulkner, Hemingway, and the Fiction of Gesture," Faulkner and His Contemporaries, ed. Joseph Urgo and Ann Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004), 54-73.
  • "'So I, Who had Never had a War . . .': William Faulkner, War, and the Modern Imagination," in Six Decades of Faulkner Criticism, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002),3-28.
  • Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.