Ann J. Abadie

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Ann J. Abadie
Born
Elizabeth Ann Julian

August 15, 1939
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedJuly 30, 2024 (age 84)
Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation(s)Editor, scholar

Elizabeth Ann Julian Abadie (August 15, 1939 – July 30, 2024) 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.

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Early life and education

Abadie was born in Greenville, South Carolina, [1] 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. [2]

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. [3] [4] She edited many of the Center's publications, and organized many of its events and exhibitions. [5] 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. [6]

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. [1] [6]

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.

Other publications

Personal life

Ann Julian married University of Mississippi history professor H. Dale Abadie. They had three children. [3] Abadie died in 2024, at the age of 84, in Tupelo, Mississippi. [5]

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  2. 1 2 University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses (2019-05-31). The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-4968-2243-7.
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  7. ↑ Harrington, Evans; Abadie, Ann J. (1977). The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-61703-510-4.
  8. ↑ Harrington, Evans, and Ann J. Abadie, eds. The Maker and the Myth: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1977. University Press of Mississippi, 1978.
  9. ↑ Harrington, Evans, and Ann J. Abadie, eds. Faulkner, modernism, and film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1978. University Press of Mississippi, 1979.
  10. ↑ Faulkner, William; Fowler, Doreen; Abadie, Ann J., eds. (1984). [William] Faulkner: International perspectives. Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1982. Ed. by Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: Univ. Pr. of Mississippi. ISBN   978-0-87805-217-2.
  11. ↑ Fowler, Doreen, and Ann J. Abadie, eds. New Directions in Faulkner Studies: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1983. University Press of Mississippi, 1984.
  12. ↑ Fowler, Doreen; Abadie, Ann J. (1987). Faulkner and Race. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-806-3.
  13. ↑ Fowler, Doreen; Abadie, Ann J. (1989). Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1987. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-0-87805-373-5.
  14. ↑ Fowler, Doreen, and Ann J. Abadie. Faulkner and popular culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1988 (University Press of Mississippi 1990).
  15. ↑ Abadie, Donald M. Kartiganer, Ann J. (1995). Faulkner and ideology. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-61703-385-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ Kartiganer, Donald M.; Abadie, Ann J. (1996). Faulkner and gender. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-61703-003-1.
  17. ↑ Kartiganer, Donald M.; Abadie, Ann J. (1999). Faulkner and the Natural World. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-025-8.
  18. ↑ Abadie, Ann J. (2001). Faulkner in America. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-61703-555-5.
  19. ↑ Duvall, John Noel; Abadie, Ann J. (2002). Faulkner and Postmodernism: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1999. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-57806-459-5.
  20. ↑ Polk, Noel; Abadie, Ann J. (2004). Faulkner and War: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2001. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-57806-559-2.
  21. ↑ Urgo, Joseph R.; Abadie, Ann J. (2007). Faulkner's Inheritance: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2005. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-164-4.
  22. ↑ Urgo, Joseph R.; Abadie, Ann J. (2007-01-01). Faulkner and Material Culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-163-7.
  23. ↑ Urgo, Joseph R.; Abadie, Ann J. (2009-09-18). Faulkner and His Contemporaries. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-058-6.
  24. ↑ Urgo, Joseph R.; Abadie, Ann J. (2009-09-18). Faulkner and the Ecology of the South. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-064-7.
  25. ↑ Kartiganer, Donald M.; Abadie, Ann J. (2009-09-18). Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-029-6.
  26. ↑ Trefzer, Annette; Abadie, Ann J. (2010-11-12). Global Faulkner. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-60473-354-9.
  27. ↑ Trefzer, Annette, and Ann J. Abadie. Faulkner's Sexualities. University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
  28. ↑ Trefzer, Annette; Abadie, Ann J. (2014-04-29). Faulkner and Mystery. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-62674-153-9.
  29. ↑ Lurie, Peter; Abadie, Ann J. (2014-09-18). Faulkner and Film. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-62674-336-6.
  30. ↑ Watson, Jay; Abadie, Ann J. (2015-06-25). Faulkner's Geographies. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-4968-0228-6.
  31. ↑ Watson, Jay; Abadie, Ann J. (2016-02-04). Fifty Years after Faulkner. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-4968-0399-3.
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  33. ↑ Abadie, Ann J.; Gruber, J. Richard (2023-10-20). American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN   978-1-4968-4837-6.
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