Publications

This page contains information about many of the scholarly books and articles published by SMCM president, Joe Urgo. The SMCM Library has acquired many of the materials which are being added to our collection and housed in the Library Board Room (ask at the Circulation Desk about access).

The list below includes call numbers of items in our collection in the library, links to articles available online, or additional information on where to see the item.

Be sure to check out the display case on the Library’s second floor.

Books [Available in the Library Board Room]:

Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!, with Noel Polk. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

In The Age of Distraction. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

Faulkner's Apocrypha: A Fable, Snopes, and the Spirit of Human Rebellion. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989.

Edited Volumes [Available in the Library Board Room]:

Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. With Merrill Skaggs. (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 2007)

Faulkner’s Inheritance: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2005. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007)

Faulkner and Material Culture : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007)

Faulkner and the Ecology of the South: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2003. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005)

Faulkner and His Contemporaries: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2002. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004)

My Ántonia, by Willa Cather. Edited, with Introduction and contextual appendices. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003.

Willa Cather and the American Southwest. With John Swift. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002; paper ed. 2004)

Faulkner in America: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1998. With Ann J. Abadie (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

Discursos Inaugurales de los Estadosunidos / The United States Presidential Inaugural Addresses. Introduction ("The Inaugural Address as Genre: Textual Nationalism in the United States") and seven addresses collected in a bilingual edition, tr. by Camino Fernandez Rabadan (León, Spain: University of León, 1996)

Review Essays found in the Library Stacks

"Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2004. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 169-200. [Library Stacks PS3.A47]

"Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2003. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 171-200. [Library Stacks PS3.A47]

"Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2002. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 161-180. [Library Stacks PS4.A47]

"Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2001. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. pp. 187-210. [Library Stacks PS3.A47]

"Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2000. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002, pp 163-190. [Library Stacks PS3.A47]

"Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1999. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 179-200. [Library Stacks PS3.A47]

With Philip Cohen "Faulkner." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1998. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, pp. 149-178. [Library Stacks PS3.A47]

Articles, Chapters, and Review Essays

Complete Bibliography

• Books and Articles Published by Joe Urgo (.pdf, 114K)

Articles and Handouts accessed via PDF

• Counting to One is Not Not Counting: A Humanities Response to the Spellings Commission (.pdf, 752K)
• Gorham Munson Falls Out With Cather: A Letter (.pdf, 1037K)
• Introduction: Faulkner’s Things (.pdf, 637K)
• The Cather Thesis: The American Empire of Migration (.pdf, 933K)
• William Faulkner's Map of the Unseen World, Yoknapatawpha County (.pdf, 2424K)
• Introduction: Faulkner and His Contemporaries (.pdf, 1031K)
• Willa Cather's Political Apprenticeship at McClure's Magazine (.pdf, 972K)
• Willa Cather's Dock Burs: Reading Cather through Sapphira and the Slave Girl (.pdf, 822K)
• Distraction; or, The Public Value of Literary Study (.pdf, 2729K)
• An Obscure Destiny, This Business of Teaching English (.pdf, 892K)
• Destinations and Admonitions: Willa Cather's Obscure Destinies (.pdf, 167K)
• Faulkner Unplugged: Abortopoesis and The Wild Palms (.pdf, 1016K)
• The Burden of the Future: The Reinvention of the U.S. Frontier at the End of the Twentieth Century (.pdf, 1526K)
• How Context Determines Fact: Historicism in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady (.pdf, 352K)
• Menstrual Blood and 'Nigger Blood': Joe Christmas and the Ideology of Sex and Race (.pdf, 562K)

Articles Chapters and Review Essays accessed via a URL

• Final Thoughts: Disagreement, negotiation are at the heart of what we do here
• Collegiality and the Management of Academic Community
• The Yoknapatawpha Project: The Map of a Deeper Existence
• The Affiliation Blues
• Capitalism, Nationalism, and the American Short Story
• Absalom, Absalom!: The Movie
• William Faulkner and the Drama of Meaning: The Discovery of the Figurative in As I Lay Dying
• Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'
• Temple Drake's Truthful Perjury: Rethinking Faulkner's Sanctuary
• The Godfather Seen Through The Lens of Elite Criticism (and Vice Versa)
• The Iconic Willa Cather
• Performing Yoknapatawpha