Cheryl Lester

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, 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.