This panel engages with the presidential theme of “visibility,” broadly imagined. We pay particularly attention to readings that engage with disability, queer, and performance theories, epistemology, appearance and ways of seeing/knowing, epistemology, censorship or linguistic misdirection. This panel specifically takes up Faulkner's engagement with New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Although Faulkner only lived in New Orleans for six months in 1925, the region had a clear influence on his writing throughout his career.

Our four panelists represent a diversity of voices within Faulkner Studies, both nationally and globally. The four presenters engage with the following topics:

1. “That airport wasn’t quite the airport”: Reading Pylon Through a Lost Airfield

2. “Faulkner, Atchafalaya”

3. “Multilingual Absalom, Monolingual Absalom: William Faulkner’s Empire of Language

4. “William Faulkner’s sketches of New Orleans: Showing through sensorial experience”

Linguistic and geographic visibility are innovative approaches to discussing Faulkner's works, particularly in the Louisiana gulf coast region.

Each panelist will present at 15-minute paper, leaving time for moderated discussion between panelists and audience members.