Christopher Rieger is former Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, USA, and the previous Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies. He is the author of Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature (2009) and the co-editor of six essay collections, including Faulkner and Garcia Marquez (2020), Faulkner and Hemingway (2018), and Faulkner and Morrison (2013). He
currently works for the U.S. Department of State.