Gary Richards, assistant professor of English, recently published two articles. “The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter: Male Homosexuality and Faulkner’s Early Prose Writings” is included in Faulkner’s Sexualities, a volume published by University Press of Mississippi in 2010. The second article, “Queering Katrina: Gay Discourses of the Disaster in New Orleans,” appeared in the 2010 special issue of the Journal of American Studies devoted to the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.