Cheryl Lester

Cheryl Lester is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Kansas. She publishes on American literature - especially Faulkner in the context of modernity, mobility, and migration - and translates and introduces French literary and theoretical works. To the Digital Yoknapatawpha project she brings experience in the development of bibliographic and multigenerational genealogical databases. She currently co-edits the Family History Database Project, sponsored by the Bowen Theory Academy, which gathers and aggregates coded data on family histories.