Faculty Members

Faculty

Noel Polk,
Professor Emeritus and
Editor of the Mississippi Quarterly

Noel Polk, having retired from his teaching duties, continues his tenure as editor of The Mississippi Quarterly. He specializes in American fiction, and has published and lectured widely in this country, Europe, Japan, and the former Soviet Union on William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Recent books include Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner (1996); Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work (1993); and Outside the Southern Myth (1997). In addition he is in the process of editing William Faulkner's works for The Library of America, Random House, and Vintage International, and recently (2001) edited a new edition of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men for Harcourt Brace