UCSB English Professor Candace Waid receives the Faulkner Journal’s Jim Hinkle Memorial Prize for 2006-12 for “Burying the Regional Mother: Faulkner’s Road to Race through the Visual Arts,” Vol. 23.1 (2007).

Professor Waid receives the honor that is only awarded once every five years, the plaudit is reserved for a single essay, published in The Faulkner Journal, seen as making a unique and lasting contribution to Faulkner scholarship.  More about the Jim Hinkle Memorial Prize.