Marjorie Pryse, Visiting Professor at Cornell, recently completed a 5 year term as Dean of Graduate Studies and holds tenure as Professor in the Departments of English and Women's Studies at SUNY-Albany. In addition to her Ph.D. in English, she holds an M.S.W. with specialization in psychodynamic mental health and worked as a clinician for two years before returning to the classroom. She has published extensively in American literary regionalism, writing on Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sui Sin Far, Mary Noialles Murfree, and others. With co-editor Hortense Spillers, she published one of the earliest critical collections of writing on African-American women writers. Her most recent publication is Textual Duration against Chronological Time: Graphing Memory in Faulkner's Benjy section , forthcoming in Faulkner Journal .