Ann J. Abadie
Elizabeth Ann Julian Abadie was an American scholar and editor, focused mainly on the works of William Faulkner. She was a founder and associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1979 to 2011, and organized the school's annual conference on William Faulkner from 1974 to 2011.
Early life and education
Abadie was born in Greenville, South Carolina, the daughter of Frank Jefferson Julian and Pansy Luna Falls Julian. Her father worked in a textile mill. She graduated from Wake Forest University in 1960, and completed doctoral studies at the University of Mississippi in 1963, with a dissertation on William Faulkner.Career
Abadie organized the University of Mississippi's annual conference on William Faulkner from 1974 to 2011. She was a founder and associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, from writing proposals for its funding in the mid-1970s, through years of acquiring important collections for the center's archives, until her retirement in 2011. She edited many of the Center's publications, and organized many of its events and exhibitions. In 1999, she was a founding director of the Southern Foodways Alliance. She joined the board of governors of the MIssissippi Institute of Arts and Letters in 2007.In 2019, the Southern Foodways Alliance recognized her contributions with the Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, Abadie received the Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
Publications
Faulkner scholarship
For many years, Abadie co-edited a collection of essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi.The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha The Maker and the Myth Faulkner, Modernism, and Film Faulkner: International Perspectives New Directions in Faulkner Studies Faulkner and Race Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction Faulkner and Popular Culture Faulkner and Ideology Faulkner and Gender Faulkner and the Natural World Faulkner in America Faulkner and Postmodernism Faulkner and War Faulkner's Inheritance Faulkner and Material Culture Faulkner and His Contemporaries Faulkner and the Ecology of the South Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect Global Faulkner Faulkner's Sexualities Faulkner and Mystery Faulkner and Film Faulkner's Geographies- ''Fifty Years After Faulkner''
Other publications
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture The Mississippi Encyclopedia The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston- ''American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World''