M. Thomas Inge ’59, the Randolph-Macon College Blackwell Professor of Humanities, has published The Dixie Limited: Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence (University Press of Mississippi), his eighth book on the Southern writer. The volume provides a full survey and a collection of essays by prominent writers both here and abroad on the power and importance of Faulkner’s example. Inge argues that few other writers have exerted so profound an influence on literature in general as did Faulkner in his own lifetime and after.

One reviewer of the book has noted, “How splendid to have in one book so much of what the best writers have said about Faulkner and to have it all presented with such impressive authority in Inge’s comprehensive introduction …. The Supreme Court of the literary world shows up … in this thought-provoking treasury.”

Other recent publications include “A Literary Genealogy: Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, and Mo Yan,” Moravian Journal of Literature and Film, 5.1 (Spring): 5-12;  “Origins of Early Comics and Proto-Comics,” The Routledge Companion to Comics (Routledge, 2016), pages 9-15; and “Harvey Kurtzman’s MAD: Subversion and Fantasy,” Children’s Literature Review, volume 209 (Gale Cengage Learning, 2016), pages 12-18.

Inge read a paper on the “Origins of the Comic Book” at the meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in Seattle on March 24, 2016, and participated in a panel discussion on “William Faulkner: His Life and Work” at the Mississippi Festival of the Book held in Jackson on August 20. He was also on two panels discussing the history of the American comic book at the Third Richmond Wizard World ComicCon on September 10.