Congratulations to Zack Vernon!
His article, co-authored with Patrick Horn and Jessica Martell, "Reading the Forms of History: Plantation Ledgers and Modernist Experimentation William Faulkner's 'The Bear,'" has just been published in Fifty Years after Faulkner (University Press of Mississippi, 2016). Based on two years of archival research at UNC's Southern Historical Collection, Zack and his co-authors argue that Faulkner's modernist aesthetic was influenced by his obsessive reading of the mid-nineteenth-century plantation ledgers of Francis Terry Leak. This argument complicates the more common interpretation of Faulkner's modernism, in which scholars maintain that his formal experimentation was chiefly influenced by European modernists like Joyce, Eliot, and Conrad.
Way to go, Zack!