Jim Hinkle Memorial Prize

The Jim Hinkle Memorial Prize is awarded by The Faulkner Journal for an essay that makes a unique and lasting contribution to Faulkner scholarship. The prize carries with it a $1,000 award.

The prize is awarded in the memory of James Hinkle, one of the founders of this journal, and his tenacious dedication to Faulkner studies. The caretakers of The Faulkner Journal recognize that Jim likely may have obstreperously disagreed with the winning choices but he would have at least, we think, loved the idea that Faulkner scholarship was being remunerated.

The Jim Hinkle
Memorial Prize

for the years

2012–2017

The Faulkner Journal

To

Jessica Hurley

Harper Schmidt Fellow and Humanities Assistant Professor

University of Chicago

for

"Ghostwritten: Kinship and History in Absalom, Absalom!"

Vol. 26.2 (2012)

Past recipients:

1989–1999 Meryl Altman "The Bug That Dare Not Speak its Name: Sex, Art, Faulkner's Worst Novel, and the Critics" 9.1 (1993)

2000–2005 Erik Dusere "The Debts of History: Southern Honor, Affirmative Action, and Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust" 17.1 (2001)

2006–2011 Candace Waid "Burying the Regional Mother: Faulkner's Road to Race through the Visual Arts" 23.1 (2007)