LECTURERS AND PANELISTS

Andre Bleikasten, University of Strasbourg; author of Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," The Most Splendid Failure: Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," and The Ink of Melancholy.

Thadious M. Davis, Vanderbilt University; author of Faulkner's Negro : Art and the Southern Context and Nella Larsen: Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance.

Susan Donaldson, College of William and Mary; author of numerous essays on Southern writing, editor of Faulkner and Sexuality, and coeditor of Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts.

Joseph. L. Fant, Major General, United States Army, Retired; coeditor of Faulkner at West Point.

Doreen Fowler, University of Kansas; author of Faulkner's Changing Vision: From Outrage to Affirmation and Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed (forthcoming).

Minrose Gwin, University of New Mexico; author of Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature and the Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference.

Kenneth Holditch, Emeritus, University of New Orleans; author of numerous essays on Faulkner and other Southern writers; editor of In Old New Orleans and the Tennessee Williams Journal; a founder of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society.

Lothar Hönnighausen, University of Bonn; author of William Faulkner: The Art of Stylization and Masks and Metaphors (forthcoming); editor of Faulkner's Discourse: An International Symposium.

John Irwin, Johns Hopkins University; author of Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge, American Hieroglyphics, and The Mystery to a Solution.

Randall Kenan, Southern Writer in Residence, University of Mississippi, Fall 1997; author of A Visitation of Spirits and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead.

Arthur Kinney, University of Massachusetts; author of Faulkner's Narrative Poetics: Style as Vision and Go Down, Moses : The Miscegenation of Time; coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury."

Thomas McHaney, Georgia State University; author of William Faulkner's The Wild Palms : A Study and editor of a long lost manuscript of Faulkner's second novel, Mosquitoes, a facsimile and transcription.

John T. Matthews, Boston University; author of The Play of Faulkner's Language and "The Sound and the Fury": Faulkner and the Lost Cause.

Michael Millgate, Emeritus, University of Toronto; author of The Achievement of William Faulkner, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist, and Thomas Hardy: A Biography.

David Minter, Rice University; author of William Faulkner: His Life and Work and A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner; associate editor of The Columbia Literary History of the United States.

Albert Murray, author of The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture, The Hero and the Blues, Train Whistle Guitar, Stomping the Blues, The Spyglass Tree, and The Seven-League Boots: A Novel.

Richard Moreland, Louisiana State University; author of Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting.

Gail Mortimer, University of Texas, El Paso; author of Faulkner's Rhetoric of Loss and Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Welty's Fiction.

Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi; author of Faulkner's "Requiem for a Nun": A Critical Study, Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work, and Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner.

Carolyn Porter, University of California at Berkeley; author of Seeing and Being: The Plight of the Participant Observer in Emerson, James, Adams, and Faulkner.

Judith L. Sensibar, Arizona State University; author of The Origins of Faulkner's Art and editor of Faulkner's Poetry: A Bibliographical Guide to Texts and Criticism.

Hans Skei, University of Oslo; author of William Faulkner: the Short Story Career and William Faulkner: The Novelist as Short Story Writer.

Warwick Wadlington, University of Texas; author of The Confidence Game in American Literature, Reading Faulknerian Tragedy, and "As I Lay Dying": Stories Out of Stories.

Philip M. Weinstein, Swarthmore College; author whose books include Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns and, most recently, What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison.

Judith Wittenberg, Simmons College; author of Faulkner: The Transfiguration of Biography.

Karl Zender, University of California, Davis; author of The Crossing of the Ways: William Faulkner, the South, and the Modern World.