Scholarly Collaborators

Johannes Burgers is an Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at James Madison University in Virginia and a Research Fellow at Ashoka University in New Delhi, India. Since 2014 he has been an Associate Director of Digital Yoknapatawpha. He works on advanced data visualizations of DY's data, and has published in venues such as Mississippi Quarterly, Cultural Analytics, and Digital Humanities Quarterly. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2013-present

Co-editor: Absalom, Absalom!, "By the People," The Hamlet, "The Hound," "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard," The Mansion, "Red Leaves," "Retreat," "A Rose for Emily," The Sound and the Fury. Additional Editing: "Ambuscade," "Death Drag," "Fool about a Horse," "Monk," "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek," "Raid," The Reivers, "The Tall Men," "That Evening Sun," "Uncle Willy," "The Unvanquished," The Unvanquished, "Vendee," "Wash." Author: "Narrative Structure Analysis," "Race & Place: Mapping the Demography of Faulkner's Fictions."

James B. Carothers (1942 – 2024) was Conger Gabel Teaching Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, where he taught from 1970 to 2016. Author of William Faulkner's Short Stories (1985) and co-author (with Theresa M. Towner)of Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories (2006), he was, with John T. Matthews, founding co-editor of The Faulkner Journal. [updated September 2024]

DY collaborator: 2012-2021

Co-editor: Light in August, "Shingles for the Lord," "Ad Astra," "Lion," "Fool About a Horse," "That Will Be Fine," The Town, The Hamlet, "A Name for the City," Requiem for a Nun.

Robert Coleman is Assistant Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Alabama and the editor of Studies in American Culture. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2013-2020

Co-Editor: Go Down, Moses, The Sound and the Fury, "An Error in Chemistry," "Dry September," "The Old People," "Race at Morning," and "Wash." Co-author: "Manuscripts &c: 'Wash.'"

Elizabeth Cornell is the Senior Writer for Internal Communications at New York Public Radio. Her publications include articles on Faulkner and the digital humanities in South Central Review and Mississippi Quarterly. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2012-2017

Co-editor: "Hair," Light in August, "Red Leaves," "A Rose for Emily."

John Michael Corrigan is Professor of English at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. His books include Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2024). American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry (Fordham University Press, 2012), and the edited volume Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts (Routledge, 2019). [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2013-present

Co-editor: "As I Lay Dying," The Hamlet, The Mansion, "The Bear." Additional editing: Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, "Centaur in Brass,'" "A Rose for Emily," "All the Dead Pilots," "A Bear Hunt," "Skirmish at Sartoris," "A Bear Hunt,'" "The Hound," "Hand Upon the Waters."

Ren Denton holds a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and is an Associate Professor of English at East Georgia State College, where she teaches American and African American Literature. Her publications include articles on Faulkner in Critical Insights: The Sound and the Fury edited by Taylor Hagood, Faulkner Conference Series: Faulkner and Hurston edited by Christopher Rieger and Andrew B. Leiter, and Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century edited by Theresa M. Towner. She has also presented her teaching experience with Digital Yoknapatawpha at the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. She has created and co-created with Victoria Bryan several Digital Yoknapatawpha worksheets for the classroom. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2013-present

Co-editor: "Delta Autumn," The Reivers, The Sound and the Fury, "Wash."

Taylor Hagood is Professor of American literature at Florida Atlantic University. His publications include Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth; Following Faulkner: The Critical Response to Yoknapatawpha's Architect; and Faulkner, Writer of Disability, winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award for Best Book in Southern Studies. He has published articles on Faulkner and served as President of the William Faulkner Society (2018-2021). [updated January 2023]

DY Collaborator: 2012-2015

Co-editor: "Vendee," The Sound and the Fury, "The Unvanquished," "Wash," "Barn Burning."

Kristi Rowan Humphreys is Lecturer of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she teaches American literature, British Literature, and writing courses. Her publications include chapters on William Faulkner in anthologies with the University Press of Mississippi and Southeast Missouri State University Press. Research interests primarily focus on Faulkner's fiction in men's magazines. [updated January 2023]

DY Collaborator: 2013-2014

Co-editor: "Skirmish at Sartoris."

Jennie J. Joiner is a Professor of English at Keuka College in upstate New York, where she teaches American literature courses grounded in studies of place and geography. Her publications include articles on William Faulkner in the Faulkner Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, the Flannery O'Connor Review, and Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Theresa M. Towner and published by the University of Virginia Press. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2013-present

Co-editor: As I Lay Dying, "Hand Upon the Waters," "Knight's Gambit," "Mule in the Yard," "Smoke," The Town, "The Unvanquished," The Unvanquished, "Vendee." Additional editing: "A Name for the City," "The Bear," "By the People," "A Courtship," "Fool About a Horse," Go Down Moses, "Uncle Willy."

Steven Knepper is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. He is the associate editor of the Robert Frost Review and the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond (SUNY, 2022). He has published essays, poems, and book reviews in a number of journals. As a graduate student at the University of Virginia, he was part of the main production team for Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2011-2013

Co-editor: "That Evening Sun," "Go Down,Moses," "Barn Burning," The Reivers.

Cheryl Lester is Associate Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at the University of Kansas, where she taught American literature and theory courses and held appointments as Graduate Director and Chair of the American Studies Department. She held an NEH fellowship, was a visiting professor in Senegal, Hong Kong, and Beijing, and was the recipient of numerous teaching awards. Her publications include articles on William Faulkner in the Faulkner Journal, Modern Fiction Studies, and Criticism as well as essays in A Companion to William Faulkner, Fifty Years after Faulkner: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2012, Faulkner and His Critics, Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance, Critical Insights: The Sound and the Fury, Approaches to Teaching As I Lay Dying, Faulkner and Postmodernism: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Yoknapatawpha Conference, Faulkner in Cultural Context: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Yoknapatawpha Conference, and The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. [updated January 2023]

DY Collaborator: 2013-2014

Co-editor: Light in August, "That Evening Sun."

Julie Beth Napolin is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at The New School. In 2013-2014 she was an Associate Director of Digital Yoknapatawpha. Her book, The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Fordham UP 2020), reads the work of Faulkner within the soundscape of global modernism and was shortlisted for the 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She is the Co-President of the William Faulkner Society and President of the New School chapter of the AAUP. She's published work on Faulkner in Symploke, Fifty Years After Faulkner, Faulkner and the Family, and Faulkner and Slavery. She is the producer of an oral history of Henry Street Settlement in the time of Covid-19, acquired by the NYPL in 2022. [updated January 2023]

DY Collaborator: 2013-2015

Co-editor: "That Evening Sun" and The Sound and the Fury.

John B. Padgett is Associate Professor of English at Brevard College, where he teaches literature, film, and journalism courses and serves as the faculty adviser for the student newspaper. While earning his Ph.D. at the University of Mississippi, he created William Faulkner on the Web, the first extensive web resource on Faulkner. He has published articles on Faulkner in The William Faulkner Encyclopedia, Faulkner and Hurston, and Critical Insights: The Sound and the Fury. [updated January 2023]

DY Collaborator: 2011-present

Co-editor: "Ambuscade," "The Bear," "A Bear Hunt," Flags in the Dust, Light in August, "Miss Zilphia Gant," The Unvanquished. Additional editing: "All the Dead Pilots," "Appendix: Compson," "Dry September," "Go Down, Moses," "Lion," The Sound and the Fury. Author: "Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Analyze Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! as a Gothic Text."

Erin Penner is Associate Professor of English at Asbury University. She is the author of Character and Mourning: Woolf, Faulkner, and the Novel Elegy of the First World War and has written on Faulkner for Studies in the Novel, African-American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Theresa M. Towner and published by the University of Virginia Press. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2012-present

Co-editor: "Appendix," As I Lay Dying, "Elly," Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust, "Pantaloon in Black." Additional editing: As I Lay Dying, "Barn Burning," "Beyond," "Gold Is Not Always," "Pantaloon in Black," "Red Leaves," "The Tall Men," "That Will Be Fine," "Two Soldiers," "Wash." Author: "DY When You Only Know One Faulkner Story," "Grounding 'Pantaloon in Black' in Faulkner Country," and "Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Compare Interpretive Lenses for As I Lay Dying."

Stephen Railton, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the creator of Digital Yoknapatawpha, and directed the project from 2011-2023. Since the mid-1990s most of his time has been spent in virtual reality, exploring how electronic technology can help scholars, teachers and students appreciate the story of American literature and culture in new ways. Among the other major online resources, he has created are Mark Twain in His Times, Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture, and Faulkner at Virginia. In addition to the Yoknapatawpha fictions he has helped edit (listed below), he is the author of most of the ancillary materials and exhibits in DY – Manuscripts Etc., Audio Clips, Genealogies and so on. [updated September 2024.]

DY collaborator: 2011-present

Co-editor: Sanctuary, Appendix: Compson, Requiem for a Nun, Flags in the Dust, The Reivers, Absalom, Absalom!, Intruder in the Dust, "Spotted Horses," "Delta Autumn," "Race at Morning," "By the People," "Miss Zilphia Gant," "Elly," "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard," "A Name for the City," "Two Soldiers," "Shall Not Perish," "Monk," "Gold Is Not Always," "Lion," "Fool About a Horse," "The Tall Men," "There Was a Queen," "A Courtship," "Skirmish at Sartoris," "My Grandmother Millard," "Ad Astra," "The Hound," "Uncle Willy," "Hair," "A Justice," "A Point of Law," "A Bear Hunt."

Christopher Rieger was the Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies and Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University until 2023. He is the author of Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature and Faulkner's Fashions: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing, and the co-editor of six essay collections, including Faulkner & Morrison, Faulkner & Hurston, Faulkner & Hemingway, and Faulkner & Garcia Marquez. He currently works for the U.S. Department of State. [updated September 2024]

DY collaborator: 2015-2023

Co-editor: "A Justice," "An Error in Chemistry." Additional editing: "Ad Astra," "Barn Burning," "Red Leaves," "Shall Not Perish," The Town, "There Was a Queen," "Two Soldiers." Co-author: "Faulkner Mapping|Mapping Faulkner."

Ben Robbins is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and project leader of "Networked Narratives: Queer Exile Literature 1900–69," which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). He is the author of Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and Screen (University of Virginia Press 2024). His work on Faulkner has appeared in the Journal of Screenwriting, the Faulkner Journal, and Genre and in the edited collections Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas and Digitizing Faulkner. His piece on Faulkner’s short story "Death Drag" and DY, which was published in Studies in American Culture, received the Jerome Stern Award for the best article in the journal in 2016. [updated September 2024]

DY collaborator: 2014-present

Co-editor: "Death Drag," Go Down, Moses, The Mansion, "The Old People," Sanctuary. Additional editing: "A Courtship," "An Error in Chemistry," "Appendix: Compson," "Dry September," "Elly," Flags in the Dust, "Go Down, Moses," "Hair," "Lion," "Shingles for the Lord." Author: "Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Analyze 'A Rose for Emily' as a Gothic Literary Work."

Dorette Sobolewski is Research Coordinator at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia where she conducts research on colonial and early American history and culture, and the origins of American identity. During her time in higher education, she has presented and published papers that analyze race and class in Faulkner's work. [updated January 2023]

DY Collaborator: 2013-2017

Co-editor: "There Was a Queen," "Mule in the Yard," "Raid," The Unvanquished, "My Grandmother Millard."

Theresa M. Towner is Ashbel Smith Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Co-Director of Digital Yoknapatawpha. Her books on Faulkner include Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels, Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories (with James B. Carothers), and The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner. She has also edited the Library of America volume of Faulkner's short stories as well as Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century, a collection of essays by collaborating editors of DY. [updated September 2024]

DY collaborator: 2013-present

Co-editor: Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, The Town, "A Courtship," "A Point of Law," "Gold is Not Always," "Shingles for the Lord," "That Will be Fine," "Death Drag," "Centaur in Brass," "All the Dead Pilots," "Beyond." Additional editing: Light in August, The Unvanquished, The Reivers, As I Lay Dying, "Monk," "Dry September," "Mule in the Yard"; "Elly," "Death Drag," "Shall Not Perish," "A Justice," "Uncle Willy," "That Will Be Fine," "Beyond," "An Error in Chemistry," "Smoke."

Michael Wainwright holds the position of Honorary Research Associate with the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. His monographs include Darwin and Faulkner's Novels: Evolution and Southern Fiction (2008), The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship (2018), and Faulkner's Ethics: An Intense Struggle (2021). [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2016–present

Co-editor: "Hand Upon the Waters," "Knight's Gambit," "Smoke."

Lorie Watkins received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi and is Professor of English at William Carey University. She recently edited and contributed to A Literary History of Mississippi and is the author of William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition. She has published various essays on Faulkner and is a former William Faulkner Society Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference student fellow. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2013-present

Co-editor: "All the Dead Pilots," "Beyond," "Centaur in Brass," "Knight's Gambit," "Monk," "The Tall Men," The Town. Additional editing: "Hair," Intruder in the Dust, "Knight's Gambit," "The Old People," "A Point of Law," "Hair," "The Old People," "Shingles for the Lord," "Spotted Horses," The Town, "Tomorrow."

Jay Watson (right), a founding advisory editor for DY, is Distinguished Professor of English and Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught since 1989. Author or editor of fifteen books, most recently Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South (Oxford, 2022), he was president of the William Faulkner Society from 2009 to 2012. [updated January 2023]

DY collaborator: 2012-present

Additional editing: "Tomorrow," "Mule in the Yard," "A Justice."