This volume situates Faulkner within a range of current and emerging critical fields, such as African American studies, visual culture studies, world literatures, modernist studies, gender studies, and the energy humanities. The essays are written with the Faulkner expert and general reader in mind, and covers the full range of Faulkner's opus.

Part I. Approaches: 1. Faulkner and Formalism Sebastien Fanzun; 2. Faulkner and modernist gothic Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright; 3. '[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere': Faulkner and World Literature Jenna Grace Sciuto; 4. Faulkner and print culture John N. Duvall; 5. Faulkner after Morrison Catherine Gunther Kodat; 6. Faulkner's acoustics, or minor sound Julie Beth Napolin; Part II. Cultures: 7. Queering Faulkner: Content, Structure, Failure Alexander Howard; 8. Faulkner and Women Lisa Hinrichsen; 9. 'A Shape to fill a lack': Faulkner and Indigenous Studies Eric Gary Anderson; 10. On Thingification: Faulkner and Afropessimism Joanna Davis-McElligatt; Part III. Interfaces: 11. William Faulkner, Public intellectual Robert Jackson; 12. Faulkner and screen culture Stefan Solomon; 13. Faulkner and modern war Michael Zeitlin; 14. Fossil-fuel Faulkner: Energy and modernity in the US South Jay Watson; Afterword: 'The wrong people,' Filling in the ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ , and New Faulkner studies Taylor Hagood.