James Carothers

My scholarship is traditional, grounded in the aim of adding to the collective understanding of particular texts and larger issues within the career of a single author.  Within Faulkner studies, my most important work has been on the short stories, but I have also attempted to elucidate the comic and humorous elements of Faulkner’s fiction, and to serve as expositor and advocate for his often-neglected later fiction.  At present I am gathering materials for a monograph on that aspect of the subject.  I have also done research and made presentations on Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and have tried to keep current in studies of modernism and of comedy and humor.  My interest continues in the literature of baseball, which began in my effort to apply conventional methods of academic analysis to a voluminous popular culture subject.