The Center for Faulkner Studies is devoted to the study of William Faulkner, sole owner and proprietor of Yoknapatawpha County.
The Center for Faulkner Studies (CFS) is located on the third floor of Kent Library on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO.
The CFS was established at Southeast Missouri State University in 1989 under the leadership of its first and only director, Robert Hamblin, following the University's acquisition of the Brodsky Collection, assembled over a 30-year period by Louis Daniel (L.D.) Brodsky of St. Louis.
The CFS sponsors and supports educational, scholarly and public service projects related to William Faulkner, the South and American and world literatures. In cooperation with BioKyowa, Inc., the Center operates the BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar program. The Center also publishes the Teaching Faulkner newsletter.
The renowned Brodsky Collection includes the Blotner Papers, the research files of Faulkner's biographer Joseph Blotner.
The Center is also the repository for the materials assembled by Jane Isbell Haynes, a Faulkner scholar and collector. Haynes is the author of William Faulkner: His Lafayette County Heritage and William Faulkner: His Tippah County Heritage.
The CFS hours are 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment. For additional information, please phone (573) 986-6155, fax (573) 651-5188, or e-mail cfs@semo.edu.