Inaugural Howry Lecture in Faulkner Studies

Please join us for the inaugural Howry Lecture on Monday, October 25 at 7pm. This event has been changed to a virtual lecture due to concerns about Covid-19. To access the event, please scan the QR code or visit  https://olemiss.zoom.us/j/98392937587

The inaugural Howry Lecturer is Professor Barbara Ladd of Emory University.  Professor Ladd is an internationally recognized expert on the literature and culture of the American South, and Faulkner’s work has figured prominently in the two monographs she has published to date:  Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (LSU Press, 1996), and Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (also LSU Press, 2007).  She is also the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South (Oxford University Press, 2016) and the author of dozens of scholarly essays about southern writers.  You can learn more about her publication history at her Emory University webpage, here: http://english.emory.edu/home/people/bios/ladd-barbara.html