Joseph Urgo
Professor and Chair of Department

• Faulkner and the Ecological South: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2003. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005)
• Faulkner and His Contemporaries: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2002. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004)
• Willa Cather on Mesa Verde and the American Southwest. With John Swift. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2001)
• Faulkner in America: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1998. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001)
• Discursos Inaugurales de los Estadosunidos / The United States Presidential Inaugural Addresses. Introduction ("The Inaugural Address as Genre: Textual Nationalism in the United States") and seven addresses collected in a bilingual edition, tr. by Camino Fernandez Rabadan (León, Spain: University of León, 1996)
• My Ántonia, by Willa Cather. Edited, with Introduction and contextual appendices. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003.Willa Cather and the American Southwest. With John Swift. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002; paper ed. 2004)
• "Multiculturalism as Nostalgia in Cather, Faulkner, and United States Culture," Willa Cather on the American Southwest. Ed. John Swift and Joseph R. Urgo (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 136-149.

• "'it is because there is nothing else I believe there is something else but there may not be and then I': William Faulkner's Map of the Unseen World, Yoknapatawpha County." Literature and Belief (2005)
• "Introduction: Faulkner and the Ecological South." Faulkner and His Contemporaries: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2003. Eds. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005)
• "Introduction: Faulkner and His Contemporaries." Faulkner and His Contemporaries: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2002. Eds. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004)
• "My Ántonia and the National Parks Movement." Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination, Ed. Susan J. Rosowski. Cather Studies, Volume 3 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), pp. 44-63.
• "Multiculturalism as Nostalgia in Cather, Faulkner, and United States Culture," Willa Cather on the American Southwest. Ed. John Swift and Joseph R. Urgo (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 136-149.
• "Postvomiting: Pylon and the Faulknerian Spew," Faulkner and Postmodernism: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1999. Ed. John Duvall and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001)
• "Introduction: Faulkner in/and America." Faulkner in America: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1998. Eds. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001)
• "Where Was that Bird?: Thinking America Through Faulkner," Faulkner in America: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1998. Ed. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001)
• "The Affiliation Blues." symploké 7:1-2 (2000): 7-20; featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11, 2000 "Daily Chronicle." Reprinted in Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture, Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo
  (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
• "Willa Cather's Political Apprenticeship at McClure's Magazine," in Willa Cather in New York, ed. Merrill Skaggs (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, forthcoming 2000)
• "Willa Cather's Dock Burs: Reading Cather through Sapphira and the Slave Girl." Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South, ed. Ann Romines (University of Virginia Press, 2000), 24-37
• "Capitalism, Nationalism, and the American Short Story," Studies in Short Fiction (forthcoming). Also published in The American Short Story: New Perspectives (Spain: University de Santiago de Compostela, 1997)
• "Distraction; or, The Public Value of Literary Study," Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism 2:2 (1998): 237-259
• "Reiving and Writing," The Faulkner Journal 13:1&2 (Spring 1998): 3-14 (Introduction to special issue, "Faulkner the Reiver")
• "An Obscure Destiny, This Business of Teaching English," Profession 96 (Modern Language Association, 1996): 134-138.
• "Destinations and Admonitions: Willa Cather's Obscure Destinies." Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter 40:2 (Summer/Fall 1996): 29, 31-34.
• "Faulkner Unplugged: Abortopoesis and The Wild Palms," Faulkner and Gender: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1994. Ed. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), 252-272.
• "Faulkner's Real Estate: Land and Literary Speculation in The Hamlet," Mississippi Quarterly 48:3 (Summer 1995): 443-458
• "The Burden of the Future: The Reinvention of the U.S. Frontier at the End of the Twentieth Century," in La Frontera: Mito y Realidad del Nuevo Mundo. Ed. Maria Jose Alvarez Maurin, Manuel Broncano Rodriguez, and Jose Luis Chamosa Gonzalez (Spain: Universidad de León, 1994), pp. 321-334.
• "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: Myth or Apocrypha?" Estudios de Literatura en Lengua Inglesa del Siglo XX, Eds. Pilar Abad, Jose M. Barrio, Jose M. Ruiz (Valladolid, Spain: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educacion, Universidad de Valladolid, 1994), pp. 101-107.
• "Conceiving the Enemy: Rituals of War in Faulkner's A Fable." Faulkner Studies in Japan 1:2 (Fall 1992): 1-19
• "'The Tune is the Unity of the Thing:' Power and Vulnerability in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." The Southern Literary Journal 23:2 (Spring 1991): 40-54
• "Absalom, Absalom!: The Movie," American Literature 62:1 (March 1990): 56-73
• "How Context Determines Fact: Historicism in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady," Studies in American Fiction 17:2 (Autumn 1989): 183-192
• "Menstrual Blood and 'Nigger Blood': Joe Christmas and the Ideology of Sex and Race," The Mississippi Quarterly 41:3 (Summer 1988): 391-402
• "William Faulkner and the Drama of Meaning: The Discovery of the Figurative in As I Lay Dying," South Atlantic Review 53:2 (May 1988): 11-23
• "Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,'" Explicator (Spring 1988): 35-37
• "A Prologue to Rebellion: The Awakening and the Habit of Self-Expression," The Southern Literary Journal 20:1 (Fall 1987): 22-32
• "Comedic Impulses and Societal Propriety: The Yippie! Carnival" Studies in Popular Culture X: 1 (Summer 1987): 83-100
• "Proletarian Literature and Feminism: The Gastonia Novels and Feminist Protest," The Minnesota Review n.s. 24 (Spring 1985): 64-84 *Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Vol. 54 (Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. 1995), pp. 138-148.
• "A Note on Reverend Shegog's Sermon in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury," Notes on Modern American Literature 8:1 (Spring-Summer 1984), Item 4
• "Temple Drake's Truthful Perjury: Rethinking Faulkner's Sanctuary," American Literature 55:3 (October 1983): 435-444
• "My Ántonia and the National Parks Movement," Willa Cather's Environmental Imagination. Ed. Susan J.Rosowski (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2003).

• "Willa Cather." The Encyclopedia of the Midwest. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
• "Willa Cather." The Encyclopedia of Appalachia. 2004.
• "John Murphy and Joe Urgo: A Conversation in Letters," Willa Cather Newsletter and Review (Fall 2000), 45-50.
• Contributions to The Faulkner Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming 1999): The Mansion, The Reivers, The Town, "Centaur in Brass", "Fool About a Horse", "The Hound", "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard", "Shingles for the Lord", Air Force, Battle Cry, The De Gaulle Story, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Pine Manor Graduation Speech, Corporal, Temple Drake, Rider, Runner, Snopeses, Varners, Hollywood, Politics, Christianity, Totalitarianism.
• "Cybernatawpha" Teaching Faulkner (Spring 1995)
• "Teaching Faulkner in Spain," Teaching Faulkner (Summer 1993)
• "Thomas Beer" entry, Bibliography of United States Literature (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1992)
• "Yippies" entry, The Encyclopedia of the Left. Ed. Paul Buhle, Mari Jo Buhle, and Dan Georgakas. New York: Garland, 1990: pp. 870-871. Second edition, Oxford University Press, 1998: pp. 918-919.

• "The Godfather Seen Through The Lens of Elite Criticism (and Vice Versa)." Chris Messenger The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang" Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002, The Electronic Book Review, posted January 2, 2003. On-line
• "The Iconic Willa Cather." Review of Jonathan Goldberg, Willa Cather and Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001 and Deborah Lindsay Williams, Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship. Modernism/Modernity 9:2 (April 2002): 327-333
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2002. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2001. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. pp. 187-210.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2000. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, pp 163-190.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1999. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 179-200. With Philip Cohen
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1998. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, pp. 149-178 With Philip Cohen.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1997. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 151-182. With Philip Cohen.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1996. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998, pp. 141-178. With Philip Cohen.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1998. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000 (forthcoming). With Philip Cohen.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1997. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 151-182. With Philip Cohen.
• "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1996. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998, pp. 141-178. With Philip Cohen.
• "Current Studies in Willa Cather: The Emergence of a Cultural Resource." Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 4:2 (1977): 177-184
• "Performing Yoknapatawpha." Review-essay on Faulkner and the Artist: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1993. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. Mississippi Quarterly 50:3 (1997): 507-512
• "Deep Breathing: Faulknerian Reflections on Ricardo Piglia's Artificial Respiration." The Faulkner Journal XI (Fall 1995/Spring 1996): 51-58. *Translated by Beatriz Vegh and Reprinted in Homenaje a William Faulkner (1897-1997) desde el Río de la Plata: Una versión inédita de "Gambito de caballo" y colaboraciones de Juan José Saer, Ricardo Piglia y Joseph Urgo (Montevideo: Cal y Canto, 1997).
• "William Faulkner, Screenwriter." Review Essay: William Faulkner. Stallion Road: A Screenplay. Ed. by Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Jackson: U P Mississippi, 1989.
• William Faulkner. Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen. Ed. by Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Jackson: U P Mississippi, 1987.
• Bruce Kawin. Faulkner and Film. New York: Ungar, 1977. Mississippi Quarterly 43:3 (Summer 1990): 445-450.

• Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War by Steven Trout. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Modern Fiction Studies
• William Faulkner and the Politics of Reading by Karl Zender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. The South Atlantic Review
• Legacy, High Windy Audio by Doc Watson and David Holt. The Southern Register Fall 2002, page 11.
• Steve Cheseborough. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of the Delta Blues. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. The Southern Register (Spring 2001), pages 5-6.
• Faulkner and the Color Line: The Later Novels by Theresa M. Towner. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000 Southern Quarterly (forthcoming)
• Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream. By Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 31:2 (August 2000), 156-157.
• Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. By Joan Acocella. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Modern Fiction Studies (forthcoming)
• Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories. By Hans H. Skei. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1999 and Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction. By Robert W. Rudnicki. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. American Literature 72:1 (March 2000): 204-206
• Willa Cather: Queering America. By Marilee Lindemann. New York: Columbia U P, 1999. Modern Fiction Studies 45:4 (Winter 1999):1030-1032
• The Stuff of Our Forebears: Willa Cather's Southern Heritage. By Joyce McDonald. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1998. Southern Quarterly 38:1 (Fall 1998): 163-164
• William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist. By Daniel J. Singal. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. H-USA, H-Net Reviews, March 1998. On-line.
• Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution. By Richard Godden. NY: Cambridge, 1997.
• Borderlines: Studies in American Culture (Wales) (Forthcoming)
• Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen. By Ira B. Nadel. NY: Pantheon, 1996. H-PCAACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Internet list) and Journal of American Culture 21.2 (1998): 103-104
• Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner. By Noel Polk. Jackson: U P Mississippi, 1996. American Literature (March 1997): 235-23
• Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States. By E. San Juan, Jr. MELUS 19:1 (Spring 1994), 137-138.
• Frames in James: The Tragic Muse, The Turn of the Screw, What Maisie Knew, and The Ambassadors. By Paul Biedler. English Literary Studies, No. 59. University of Victoria, 1993. Henry James Review 14:3 (Fall 1993): 310-312
• Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth- Century America. New York: Atheneum, 1993. By Richard Slotkin. Wesleyan Alumni Monthly (May 1993), p. 37.
• Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns. By Philip M. Weinstein. New York: Cambridge U P, 1992. American Literature (June 1993):
• Sutpen's Design: Interpreting Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! By Dirk Kuyk, Jr. Charlottesville: U P Virginia, 1990. American Literature 63:1 (March 1991): 144-145
• Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha. By Daniel Hoffman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P, 1989. American Studies 31:1 (Spring 1990): 131
• Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. By Lawrence H. Schwartz. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1988. South Atlantic Review 53:4 (November 1989): 104-106
• New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge U P, 1986. South Atlantic Review 53:3 (September 1988): 144-146
• Faulkner and Women: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1985. Eds. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: U P Mississippi, 1986. South Atlantic Review 53:2 (May 1988): 171-172
• Kate Chopin. By Barbara C. Ewell. New York: Ungar, 1986.American Literature 59:1 (March 1987): 145-146