JAPANESE SCHOLAR TO VISIT SOUTHEAST TO STUDY FAULKNER

A professor from Japan will visit Southeast Missouri State University next month to study the school's Brodsky Collection of works of William Faulkner.

Toshio Koyama, a professor at the Language Center of Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan, will visit Southeast from Aug. 18 to Sept. 8.

Koyama is the recipient of the 2001 BioKyowa Visiting Japanese Scholar Award. At Southeast, he will conduct research for a book-length study of Faulkner's early poetical works. Southeast officials said the Brodsky Collection includes manuscripts from this period of the Southern writer's career.

Koyama has authored a book-length study of Faulkner's short fiction as well as more than 30 articles on Faulkner in various books and journals.

He is a member of the Japanese Association for American Studies, the Japanese Society of American Literature and the William Faulkner Society.