Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead

Schedule:

August 8th @ 10AM CT Film Is Live on Kinema through August 12th

August 10th @ 10AM CT: Eva Gourdoux Live Zoom Discussion (Zoom Link Sent Separately On August 8th)

Whether you're new to William Faulkner and his works or an avid follower of his work - we invite you to check out the award-winning film Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead. This documentary film shares William Faulkner's upbringing, the struggles and achievements he ran into and how all of this culminated into one of the most relevant and important figures in American literature. As we've screened these films, we are traveling around the world to see how Faulkner has influenced global cultures from France to Japan to Russia and beyond.

This film will be viewable from August 8th to August 10th to allow our audience to check out the film ahead of a live Q&A (on Zoom) with our French Faulkner Scholar Eva Gourfoux

About Our Scholar

Eva successfully took the agrégation d’anglais in 2017 and earned her PhD from the Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès (University of Toulouse) where she has been a temporary member of the C.A.S. (Centre for Anglophone Studies). Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the dynamics of seclusion in the works of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty.

After a first master’s thesis dedicated to Kate Chopin’s short stories, her second master’s thesis explored the regionalism-universalism dynamics in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories. She then chose to elaborate on seclusion and isolation – two topics she had already begun to tackle in her second thesis – and she decided to work on three canonical Southern writers, namely William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty.

Her research interests include American and Southern literature, stylistics, narratology, the writing of seclusion and of the margins, the grotesque, the depiction of isolated spaces, the rewriting of archetypes, the representation of gender, regionalism, novels and short stories.

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