CFP: The William Faulkner Society Sessions at MLA 2011 (Deadline March 1, 2010)

Faulkner and Print Culture: Papers exploring print culture’s impact on Faulkner and/or his impact on it. Aspects of the editing, design, production, publication, marketing, and reception of Faulkner’s writings. Faulkner’s place in the history of the book, the magazine, the book club. Inquiries, 300-500-word abstracts, or panel proposals to Jay Watson (jwatson@olemiss.edu) by 1 March 2010.

Imagining the Animal in Faulkner: Papers exploring the environmental, social, cultural, economic, political, or narrative significance of nonhuman animals in Faulkner’s works. Questions of agency, subjectivity, power, violence, wildness, domestication, consumption, ethics, justice, rights. Interactions between and within nonhuman species. Inquiries, 300-500-word abstracts, or panel proposals to Jay Watson (jwatson@olemiss.edu) by 1 March 2010.