Ahmed Honeini is an Honorary Research Associate in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound (Routledge, 2021) and Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles (Routledge, 2025), and has also published work on European literature and culture, postmodernism and transgressive fiction, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ernest Hemingway. His forthcoming work includes chapters on Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cormac McCarthy. He is the founder of the Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network (@Faulkner_UK on Twitter), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of American Studies. His main research interests are American literature, theatre, and film from 1900-present, with a focus on Faulkner, Nabokov, Williams, and Southern literature.

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