William Faulkner

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.