麻豆AV

May 2^nd聽and 3^rd, 2026

Online via Zoom

With keynote addresses by:

Professor Mary M. Burke

(author of聽Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History聽[Oxford UP, 2022])

and

Dr John Michael Corrigan

(author of聽Faulkner鈥檚 Cartographies of Consciousness聽[Cambridge UP, 2023])

鈥淚 think it鈥檚 the best novel yet written by an American鈥� (William Faulkner, on聽Absalom, Absalom!).

2026 marks 90 years since the publication of William Faulkner鈥檚 masterwork,聽Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Widely considered the greatest Southern novel of all time and among the most influential literary works of the twentieth century, the ninth Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium celebrates聽Absalom, Absalom!鈥檚 incalculable influence upon global literature.

We welcome submissions on聽any聽aspect of聽Absalom, Absalom!, including (but in no way limited to) the following:

• Comparative approaches
• Absalom, Absalom!鈥檚 position in the broader context of Faulkner鈥檚 life and work
• Questions of American identity, including the clash between the urban and rural, North and South, the wealthy elite and the working class
• Race, emancipation, and the aftershocks of enslavement
• Sexuality, gender, and queering the novel
• Narration, storytelling, mythology, and hagiography
• 鈥淪utpen鈥檚 Design鈥� and dreams, plans, ambitions, money, and greed
• The nature of tragedy, fate, and predestination
• Faulkner鈥檚 indebtedness to and influence upon the transatlantic Gothic
• Teaching and/or editing聽Absalom, Absalom!聽and Faulkner鈥檚 work
• Canonicity, legacy, reputation, and the 鈥渄ead, white male author鈥� debate

Participants interested in presenting an individual paper should submit a max. 300-word abstract for a 15/20-minute聽presentation. Participants seeking to assemble a full-panel for a 60-minute session should include a one-page overview of the panel聽and聽max. 300-word abstracts for each of the panel papers to be included. Please submit your abstracts to the event organiser, Dr Ahmed Honeini, at聽ahmed.honeini@rhul.ac.uk听产测听聽March 30^th, 2026. Successful applicants will be informed of their acceptance by聽April 6^th, 2026.

The Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network is dedicated to soliciting papers from scholars who reflect the diversity of Faulkner Studies in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, institutional affiliation, and locality. We aim to include a mix of participants from across the career spectrum (from under- and post-graduate students to full professors).聽All are welcome to apply. Follow us on Twitter: @Faulkner_UK.