Dr. Christopher Rieger, associate professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, has been named the director of the school’s Center for Faulkner Studies, effective Aug. 1.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, will deliver the keynote address at “The International Faulkner,” a conference being hosted by Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania, May 31 to June 1.
The 1955 murder of Emmett Till and its influence on two famous American authors, William Faulkner and Harper Lee, will be the focus of an upcoming lecture at Southeast Missouri State University.
Two of America’s most prominent writers, William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren, will be the focus of a literary conference being hosted by the Center for Faulkner Studies in the University Center, Oct. 25-27, at Southeast Missouri State University.
Dr. Patricia Bradley, professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, will be the keynote speaker for the Faulkner and Warren Conference being hosted by the Center for Faulkner Studies Oct. 25-27 at Southeast Missouri State University.
“Faulkner Goes Digital: Computer Art by Max Cordonnier” is currently being exhibited in the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University.
Dr. Robert W. Hamblin, professor of English and director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, will return to his alma mater, the University of Mississippi, on Wednesday, Sept. 26, to deliver a lecture on the racial integration of the school in the 1960s.
Dr. Kazumi Shigesako, professor of English at Hijiyama University and the 2012 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar at the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, will explore the relationship between literature and music in a public lecture on Thursday, Sept. 13.
The Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University has announced the recipient of the 2012 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar award.
The Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University has created a hypertext version of one of William Faulkner’s most popular short stories, “Barn Burning.”
Michael Lund, a Rolla, Mo., native who is the author of the popular series of novels set alongside historic U.S. Highway 66, will discuss his latest novel, “Route 66 Sweetheart,” at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 17, in Room 336 of Southeast Missouri State University’s Kent Library.
Professor Noboru Yamashita, the recipient of this year’s BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar award at Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies, will present a lecture on Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner on Thursday, Sept. 8.
Robert W. Hamblin and Christopher Rieger, co-editors of the book "Faulkner and Chopin" and English professors at Southeast Missouri State University, have recently had the book published by the Southeast Missouri State University Press.
“William Faulkner and Toni Morrison: A Nobel Performance,” a readers’ theater presentation written and directed by Dr. Roseanna Whitlow, instructor in the Department of Communication Studies and director of Speaking Across the Curriculum at Southeast Missouri State University, will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, in the University Center Ballroom.
Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies has received a $1,767 grant from the Missouri Humanities Council (MHC) to support the Faulkner and Morrison Conference being hosted by the Center Oct. 28-30.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, professor of English and director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, is the author of Crossroads: Poems of a Mississippi Childhood, published this month by Time Being Books of St. Louis.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, will be one of the featured presenters July 18-22 at the 37th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi.
Hironori Hayase, professor of American literature at Saga University and the 2009 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Professor at the Center for Faulkner Studies, will deliver a lecture on "Faulkner's Depiction of Indians" at 2 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 10, in Dempster Auditorium of Crisp Hall.
Hironori Hayase, professor of English at Saga University, has been selected as the 2009 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar at Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies.
Faulkner and Twain, a collection of scholarly essays about two of America’s greatest writers, has been published for the Center for Faulkner Studies by Southeast Missouri State University Press.
Dr. Christopher Rieger, assistant professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, will present an illustrated lecture based on his book, Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, in Crisp Hall Auditorium.
The Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University is issuing a Call for Papers for its next conference, "Faulkner and Morrison," to be held Oct. 28-30, 2010.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, professor of English, director of the Center for Faulkner Studies, scholar and poet at Southeast Missouri State University, has a new interest: portraying legendary Baptist preacher Clarence Jordan.
In 2005 Changlei Li, an English professor in the People’s Republic of China who wanted to travel to the United States to complete his doctoral dissertation on William Faulkner, sent letters of inquiry to two American institutions that hold significant Faulkner collections. Only one answered immediately with an invitation to visit -- Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies.
“A Salon with Kate Chopin and William Faulkner,” an original readers’ theatre dramatization scripted and directed by Dr. Roseanna Whitlow, a member of the Southeast Missouri State University Department of Communication, will premiere at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, in the University Center Ballroom.
Barbara Ewell, the Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans, will deliver the keynote address at the Faulkner and Chopin Conference at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 2, in the University Center Ballroom.
Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies will host a conference on the literary works of William Faulkner and Kate Chopin Oct. 2-4 in the University Center.
Robert Hamblin, professor of English and director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, is co-author of a new book on Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, professor of English and director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, will deliver a series of literary lectures in Taiwan in May.
A selection of William Faulkner materials collected by Jane Isbell Haynes, a noted Faulkner scholar, and recently donated to Southeast Missouri State University is currently on exhibit in the Center for Faulkner Studies in Kent Library.
Dr. Christopher Rieger, assistant professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, has been appointed assistant director of the school’s Center for Faulkner Studies.
Mariko Hiwatashi, associate professor of the humanities faculty at Fukuoka University in Fukuoka City, Japan, has been chosen as the ninth annual BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar by Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies.
Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies has added to its archives copies of U.S. State Department documents relating to Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner—thanks to the assistance of U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson and the cooperation of the University of Arkansas.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, will be the featured poet at the Tallahatchie Riverfest in New Albany, Miss., Sept. 20-22.
This “Faulkner and Chopin” conference invites proposals for twenty-minute papers on any topic related to William Faulkner and/or Kate Chopin. All critical approaches, including theoretical and pedagogical, are welcomed, as well as papers on special collections of Twain and Chopin.
Kong Qinghua, a professor and dean of English at Qingdao University, Shandong Province, the People’s Republic of China, recently completed a five-month research visit to the Center for Faulkner Studies.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, professor of English and director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, will receive the PRIDE Award during commencement exercises at 2 p.m. Dec. 16 in the Show Me Center.
A readers’ theatre dramatization of “Mr. Twain, Meet Mr. Faulkner” will be presented at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20, in the Southeast Missouri State University Center Ballroom.
"Faulkner and Twain," a conference sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies and the Missouri Humanities Council will be held on the Southeast campus Oct. 19-21.
The Missouri Humanities Council (MHC) has awarded a grant of $1,309 to Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies in support of “Faulkner and Twain,” a conference to be held Oct. 19-21.
The 2006 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar at Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies will deliver a lecture on “Faulkner and Post-World War II Japan” Sept. 7.
Dr. Robert Hamblin loves introducing readers to the works of William Faulkner. Professor of English and Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, Hamblin has been teaching Faulkner’s novels and stories for four decades. During April and May, he’ll carry his Faulkner message to Japan, where he’ll teach a graduate seminar in Faulkner at Senshu University in Tokyo. He will also deliver guest lectures at several other Japanese universities.
Takako Tanaka, the 2005 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar at Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies will present a lecture on campus Sept. 8.
Professor Takako Tanaka, professor of English at Nagoya City University, has been chosen as the seventh annual BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar by Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies.
Dr. Robert Hamblin, the director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University, is currently leading a discussion of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying on Oprah.com for Oprah’s Book Club, the world’s largest book club with more than 600,000 members.
Takaki Hiraishi, Professor of Letters at the University of Tokyo, is the 2004 recipient of the BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar Award at the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University.
Robert Hamblin, the Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies, will teach an online seminar on selected novels by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison this summer.
A detailed inventory of the correspondence and interview notes that Joseph Blotner compiled during his research and writing of Faulkner: A Biography is being added to the Center for Faulkner Studies Web site.
Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited by Robert W. Hamblin, the Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University and Ann J. Abadie, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has been published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies has announced the recipient of the 2003 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar award. Yayoi Okada, Professor of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, will visit Southeast later this year to conduct research in the Brodsky Faulkner Collection and participate in a number of cultural exchange activities.
In collaboration with M. C. "Chooky" Falkner, the Center for Faulkner Studies has issued a limited edition color print of John Faulkner's painting of a scene from William Faulkner's short story, "Red Leaves."
Teaching Faulkner: Approaches and Methods, edited by Stephen Hahn and Robert W. Hamblin, is now available from Greenwood Press. The volume includes nineteen essays on the classroom use of Faulkner's works.
A William Faulkner Encyclopedia, co-edited by CFS director Robert W. Hamblin and University of Nebraska-Kearney English professor Charles A. Peek, has recently been published by Greenwood Press.
A program celebrating the 25-year collaboration of Faulkner collector Louis Daniel Brodsky, scholar Robert Hamblin, and Southeast Missouri State University is set for Monday, November 1.
