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.
