Kathryn Stelmach Artuso is assistant professor of English at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, where she teaches twentieth-century and anglophone literature. A specialist in transatlantic modernism, Artuso's research examines the diasporic intersections between the literatures of Ireland, Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South. She is the author of Transatlantic Renaissances: Literature of Ireland and the American South (2013), which traces the influence of the Irish Literary Revival upon the Southern Renaissance, exploring how the latter looked to the former for guidance, artistic innovation, and models for self-invention and regional renovation. Her articles have appeared in Studies in the Novel, Mississippi Quarterly, the Eudora Welty Review, the Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook, and the Lexington Herald-Leader, In 2011, she was awarded the Ruth Vande Kieft Prize for her article in the Eudora Welty Review, "Transatlantic Rites of Passage in the Friendship and Fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen." Book jacket.

Career, life, influence : On William Faulkner / Kathryn Stelmach Artuso ; Biography of William Faulkner / Lorie Watkins Fulton -- Critical contexts : "The Past is Never Dead": Faulkner's relationship to Southern culture and history / Karen M. Andrews ; William Faulkner's critical reception / Taylor Hagood ; Reading Faulkner through Morrison / Doreen Fowler ; Misreading "the other" as a strategy of narrative empathy in Go down, Moses / Patrick E. Horn --Critical readings : Faulkner the cannibal: digesting Conrad / Jacques Pothier ; A furious echo: hearing Dublin's Joyce in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha / Kieran Quinlan ; As I lay dying, The time of man, and the modern folk novel / Mark Lucas ; "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and jurisprudence / Bryan Giemza ; "Far from home across the sea": William Faulkner, Randall Kenan, and taboo sexualities / Mary Alice Kirkpatrick ; Faulkner and the Bible: a haunted voice / Norman W. Jones ; "A summer of wistaria": old tales and talking, story and history in Absalom, Absalom! / Hans H. Skei ; Faulkner and film: the 1950s melodramas / D. Matthew Ramsey ; Hurling yourself against the beautiful : Faulkner and creativity / Amy Weldon.