Susan V. Donaldson retired in September 2020 as the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English and American Studies, Emerita, at the College of William and Mary, where she had been teaching since 1985. She is the author of Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914 (1998), which won a Choice “Outstanding Academic Book” award, co-editor with Anne Goodwyn Jones of Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, and editor and co-editor of several special issues of Mississippi Quarterly and The Faulkner Journal. She is also the author of over sixty journal essays and book chapters, including, most recently, a contribution to Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence, issued by University Press of Mississippi in 2024. Her scholarship and teaching have benefitted greatly from the friendship, community, and travel Professor McDowell has generously shared with so many of us over the past several decades.