William Faulkner Expert: Donald Kartiganer's Biography
Donald Kartiganer
Donald Kartiganer received his B.A. from Brown University, his M.A. from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from Brown. He taught for 27 years at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1991 he was appointed as the first Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford. In 1994 he also became the Director of the annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference
He has written extensively on modern literature, with an emphasis on Faulkner, including The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels and some forty essays and reviews, and has coedited seven volumes of criticism on Faulkner selected from the proceedings of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference.
He has held Fulbright lectureships at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and was a visiting professor of American Literature at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. In 2002 he appeared (with Thadious Davis) in a two-hour television program, part of C-Span's American Writers series, that took place at Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home in Oxford.
He has written extensively on modern literature, with an emphasis on Faulkner, including The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels and some forty essays and reviews, and has coedited seven volumes of criticism on Faulkner selected from the proceedings of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference.
He has held Fulbright lectureships at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and was a visiting professor of American Literature at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. In 2002 he appeared (with Thadious Davis) in a two-hour television program, part of C-Span's American Writers series, that took place at Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home in Oxford.
Philip Weinstein is the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College. Past president of the William Faulkner Society (2000–2003), he has published widely on Faulkner, including the following books: Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (Cambridge, 1992) and The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge, 1995). His parallel interest in Toni Morrison's work, along with his own southern background, has led him to write a comparative study of both writers entitled What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (Columbia, 1996). His most recent book, to be published this fall by Cornell Press, is a broader study of the Western novel, entitled Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction. There he discusses the fiction of both Faulkner and Morrison, in conjunction with that of other major modern novelists.
He is also the twin brother of fellow Faulkner expert, Arnold Weinstein
Read Philip Weinstein's article comparing Toni Morrison and Faulkner.
He is also the twin brother of fellow Faulkner expert, Arnold Weinstein
Read Philip Weinstein's article comparing Toni Morrison and Faulkner.
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