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“Flannery O’Connor’s Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Conference/Institute/Seminar)Title: “Flannery O’Connor’s Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Abstract: As mentioned before, most of our products are in the works. We know of a conference presentation overseas and a forthcoming publication by our participants, but we don’t yet have the details. We are confident that the Flannery O’Connor Review and other journals will be publishing articles that result from work done at the NEH Summer Institute on O’Connor. We expect books to come out of the Summer Institute as well, and a call for papers is already circulating to address the significant topic of race and O’Connor.
We expect many products to be inspired by our hosting “Flannery O’Connor’s Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back, on 12-15 Sept. 2024. We have arranged for keynote presentations by Mark Jarman, Mab Segrest, and Lisa Hinrichsen, and we are working to invite for one of the architects who created the plans for the Andalusia Interpretive Center. We hope that one function of the conference will be to form connections between our 2007, 2014, and 2023 NEH Summer Institute participants.
Date Range: 12-15 Sept. 2024
Location: Georgia College and State University campus, Milledgeville, GA
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitutePrimary URL Description: The O'Connor Institute website hosted information about the conference. We have updated it to past tense, but you can see some of the activity here.
“The Space Between Principle and Taste: Mapping Race and Racism in O’Connor Scholarship” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “The Space Between Principle and Taste: Mapping Race and Racism in O’Connor Scholarship”
Author: Matt Bryant Chaney
Abstract: An overview of the entire history of criticism on race in O'Connor scholarship.
Date: 09/14/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“‘Naturally a Hog Should Be on All Fours’: Animal Symbols and Animal Lives in O’Connor’s ‘Revelation’” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “‘Naturally a Hog Should Be on All Fours’: Animal Symbols and Animal Lives in O’Connor’s ‘Revelation’”
Author: Calvin Coon
Abstract: Flannery O’Connor’s attention to and care for animals has been well-documented by scholars; despite this, very little work has been done in reading her representations of animals throughout her fiction beyond their rendering as symbols for theological truths. Yet in the emerging field of animal studies, scholars have begun to critique this symbol making process while also centering animal lives in their own right with questions of animal subjectivity, perception, and sociality. In this presentation, I intend to extend my own inquiry into O’Connor’s representations of animal lives in her fiction. I will read her story “Revelation” alongside Ron Broglio’s critique of the reduction of animals to literary and theological symbols while neglecting the material lives of said animals. I will take as my starting point both the pig that dies after returning from outer space and the related vision of the integrated upward ascent to heaven in the presence of the Turpins’ pigs. From this, I hope to continue developing an animal studies approach to O’Connor’s fiction, exploring the ways the use of the animal in fiction shapes discussions of race, class, and Southern identity, and the ways Southern animals, wild and domesticated, are subjected and resist their subjection.
Date: 09/14/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“Writing from Across the Tracks” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Writing from Across the Tracks”
Author: Colin Cutler
Abstract: A creative non-fiction piece on O'Connor and race. Discusses a visit to Eatonton, GA, 20 minutes from Milledgeville, home town of Alice Walker before traveling to O'Connor's house museum. Discussed the dissonance between the race and class positions of these two famous authors.
Date: 09/14/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“Origin Stories: Racism, Intellectuals, and Disavowal in Flannery O’Connor” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Origin Stories: Racism, Intellectuals, and Disavowal in Flannery O’Connor”
Author: William Gonch
Abstract: In this paper I propose a “racial grotesque” as a contribution to ongoing controversies around O’Connor and race. I argue that O’Connor depicts the South’s racial caste system as a deeply evil structure that nevertheless becomes a broken image pointing toward a truer whole by its own failure to embody that whole. When O’Connor deals directly with race, she lays traps for her readers: these stories tend to feature a “story-within-a-story” narrative strategy in which a character seeks a false form of salvation premised on racial hierarchy, only to have that false salvation collapse in the face of a truer, and more racially egalitarian, vision. The false story is a form of idolatry that conceals but also indicates the true one.
While I argue against critics who accuse these stories of reifying racism, O’Connor’s method causes a persistent discomfort because she is willing to use racist characters and communities to point, however brokenly, towards a truer whole. By doing so, she introduces a more unsettlingly radical egalitarianism in which the fears, desires, and insecurities that underlie racial hatred and exploitation become uncannily shifty, able to change form and be found in places that have seemingly little to do with race.
Date: 09/14/2024
Conference Name: O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
"The Seeds, Roots and Fruits of O’Connor’s Embrace of Carmelite Spirituality” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: "The Seeds, Roots and Fruits of O’Connor’s Embrace of Carmelite Spirituality”
Author: Craig Martell
Abstract: Flannery asked God to make her “a mystic, immediately”. I will first explain Carmelite spirituality, one path for the mystic. Then I will trace the seed, root and fruit I discovered as evidence of the Carmelite path she consciously presented in her fiction and likely lived.
Date: 09/15/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“Content Farming: Flannery O’Connor and the Farm Woman Influencer” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Content Farming: Flannery O’Connor and the Farm Woman Influencer”
Author: Ashley Massey
Abstract: If Flannery O’Connor were alive today, she may have been seen as a farm influencer, one who poses with her peacocks for magazines and shares about her life on the farm to the masses. In contrast to this simplified assumption, her literature offers a more in-depth view of the unromanticized realities of women living and working on farms in the rural South. The farm can create and fuel anxieties for its owners and workers who have been caught in the midcentury to current shifts of capitalist production and consumption that favors and empowers corporate farms over small family-run farms. These anxieties manifest in Flannery O’Connor’s work especially through the women who hold positions of power on the farm, their employees and community members who feel this shift and both welcome and resent it, and their children who must choose to inherit these anxieties or seek refuge in the city’s capitalist circus. For the farm women in her stories, the farm has a tightened grip, shaping their identities, pasts, and futures. In looking forward to the present, another season of shifting is occurring with depictions of women farmers on social media. Following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are leaving cities and seeking out Southern states for a presumed simpler and less restricted life on the farm. Where O’Connor offered a more realistic portrayal of farm life for women in rural spaces, current trending homestead-focused social media accounts offer whitewashed, filtered depictions of farming women in the rural South. I argue that these purposefully traditional, highly curated, and idealistic portrayals can be analyzed in juxtaposition to the counter-pastoral literature of O’Connor. I analyze how farm representations in popular culture are transforming from one means of capitalist production to another, now as sites of content creation, agritourism photo backdrops, and refuges for idealized and politicized regression.
Date: 09/12/2024
“Flannery O’Connor, John Kennedy Toole, and the Last Great Mystery of Southern Literature” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Flannery O’Connor, John Kennedy Toole, and the Last Great Mystery of Southern Literature”
Author: Carmine Palumbo
Abstract: Discovering O’Connor’s influence on Toole’s work in published works that he most likely had read is one thing, but to find unlikely similarities between Toole’s novel and a work that
was never published in his lifetime is extraordinary and presents yet another odd coincidence. The strongest connection between the work of the two authors, O’Connor and Toole, may perhaps reside with O'Connor's unpublished novel Why Do the Heathen Rage? This paper explores these connections, situating them as part of a wider discussion of the topic of mystery.
Date: 09/15/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“O’Connor in 1964: A Firestorm Outside and In” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “O’Connor in 1964: A Firestorm Outside and In”
Author: Ann Ritter
Abstract: Two critical events bookend O’Connor’s last days: Lyndon Johnson’s assuming the U.S. Presidency (November 1963) and the March on Selma (March 1965).
O’Connor’s lifeworld contained enormous contrasts during this period: professionally, a respected intellectual and leading Southern author; personally, an enigmatic daughter and privileged white woman under the care and cultural influence of her mother, vigilant Regina.
Simultaneously, O’Connor’s mind and emotions were in a tug of war between Maryat Lee’s encouraging O’Connor to use her status and perspectives expressed in her fiction to stake out an editorial position on civil rights and O’Connor’s conflicted feelings about the personal cost of such choices. (At the time she refused to meet James Baldwin in Georgia, crosses had already been burned in and around Milledgeville.)
In this cauldron of convergent events, O’Connor unsurprisingly exemplifies a relationship now being scrutinized: illness of the female reproductive system as reflecting life experiences—for O’Connor, an (unmentionable) fibroid tumor. Treatment and removal of the tumor reignited lupus symptoms and set off a cycle of interventions and systemic deterioration that ultimately caused her death.
My presentation and project address social determinism and its role in illness and embodied manifestations of environmental stress. I examine status, but not in the way that the term is usually applied within determinism; and I use social context as it pertains to the highly fraught socio-political arena of 1964. I also draw O’Connor deep scholarship into the works of Edith Stein, who in turn had written extensively on empathy.
Date: 09/15/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“‘Take It All Off!’: Flannery O’Connor’s Sacred-Erotic Exhibitionism in Wise Blood and ‘A Temple of the Holy Ghost’” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “‘Take It All Off!’: Flannery O’Connor’s Sacred-Erotic Exhibitionism in Wise Blood and ‘A Temple of the Holy Ghost’”
Author: Jim Sisson
Abstract: Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood is filled with countless references to sight (not to mention its absence, blindness) and in an extreme “visionary” sense, exhibitionism, whether in Enoch’s antics that include him exposing himself to his “welfare woman” foster parent (Chapter 3), or even Haze’s demand to poor Solace Layfield to “Take it all off!” before he fatally runs him over (206). “Kenosis,” an emptying of the self, may be a point of consideration to bring to Haze’s voyeuristic and murderous demand for his “twin” Solace to lay himself bare before his judgmental gaze. (At his point, Leslie A. Fiedler’s “Introduction” to Simone Weil’s letters and essays, in which he discusses “askesis,” or emptying, is helpful [4].) Important questions to continue include the relationship between exhibitionism and violence. In the evaluation of critical literature, Rebecca Hayes’s and Molly Dragiewicz’s 2018 study on image-based forms of exhibitionism and abuse may be a useful new lens through which to consider some of O’Connor’s more “flashy” moments. Exhibitionism is not without Biblical precedent either. For example, there is a strange “streaker” of sorts at Jesus’s betrayal at Gethsemane (Mark 14:51). A more relevant display of exhibitionism is revealed by King David as he sashays triumphantly in his birthday suit down Main Street Jerusalem in martial victory over the Philistines (2 Samuel 6:14). Time permitting, another case study from O’Connor in which to tease the significance of exhibitionism includes the preaching “freak” at the freak show or fair in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost.” The carnival freak’s bizarre, theatrical display may actually overturn exhibitionistic risks of violence to an unexpected moment of grace and revelation (maybe not for the innocent bystanders?). O’Connor’s writing teases the possibility of the sacred in some of her more revealing and compromising plot points.
Date: 09/12/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“Bad Mentors and Terrible Teachers in Flannery O'Connor's Work” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Bad Mentors and Terrible Teachers in Flannery O'Connor's Work”
Author: Dorian Speed
Abstract: In O’Connor’s stories of self-anointed mentors and teachers, she returns to various false conceptions of the good: the perfectibility of humanity through our scientific efforts, the valor of the work ethic as the highest moral activity, the hierarchies of class and race, and the ease with which deep-seated cultural norms can be reformed. Rather than explicit refutation of these false goods or simple allegory, O’Connor uses the interactions between mentors/teachers and their chosen protégés to incarnate the exploration of conflicting ideals of the good. In this way she confronts the challenge of writing for a secular or indifferent audience: “You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.” (MM 166). I intend to address examples of mentors and teachers in O’Connor’s work, the ideas she puts into conversation as a result, and how her own experience of being mentored by Caroline Gordon shaped her body of work.
Date: 09/13/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“Not out of the Woods: Flannery O’Connor Connections in the Writings of Janisse Ray and Mary Hood” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Not out of the Woods: Flannery O’Connor Connections in the Writings of Janisse Ray and Mary Hood”
Author: Rachel Wall
Abstract: I propose connecting nature writer Janisse Ray with Flannery O’Connor if accepted to speak at the conference. When I attended the NEH Summer Institute June 2023, I was introduced to stories I somehow had missed in graduate school at Georgia State. Even though I had focused on O’Connor for a directed study with Dr. Tom McHaney, I had never read “A View of the Woods.” Others have discussed this story from an ecological perspective, but I have found parallels between Ray’s mission and O’Connor’s role as a prophet.
My 2016 dissertation was “Everyday Ecologies in the Writings of Georgia Authors Ansa, Green, Hood, and Ray.” I presented on connections between fiction writer Mary Hood and Flannery O’Connor. I would now like to add Janisse Ray. I recently heard Ray at my school GHC where she read from her 2022 book The Woods of Fannin County. Ray calls this book fiction, but it is based on a true story of 8 children who survived on their own after being left behind by their desperate family. I have just started this book but plan to incorporate it into my paper.
Date: 09/15/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
"Recovering the Power to Vomit" (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: "Recovering the Power to Vomit"
Author: Robert Donahoo
Abstract: There are a number of scenes in which O'Connor characters significantly vomit, most memorably Norton in "The Lame Shall Enter First." This paper discusses the assumptions about the modern world that cause the characters to vomit. O'Connor asks her readers to share her and her characters' disgust.
Date: 09/13/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“Traveling While Black: Mobility and Race in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Traveling While Black: Mobility and Race in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’”
Author: Katie Simon
Abstract: This paper investigates social, cultural, and historical contexts for Flannery O’Connor’s 1953 short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” in order to situate this work as a commentary on midcentury racialized codes in the South, particularly pertaining to traveling while black. Specifically, the story highlights the way that black actors and musicians traveling in the south, like the singers who would have performed this tune, risked their lives. The title of this short story comes from the blues tune “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” written in 1917 by the African American songwriter and actor Eddie Green. Green’s song became a well-known standard, widely recorded and performed by both men and women, by both black and white people, with many performers improvising lyrics that alter or even subvert the original accommodationist content of the song. Green himself had been a versatile performer, beginning with vaudeville in Baltimore, and moving on to Broadway for musicals with such well-known performers as Louis Armstrong and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, but he was perhaps best known for his radio work on the show Amos ‘n’ Andy. Green’s death in 1950, the radio show’s adaptation to television in 1951, and the NAACP’s scathing critique of the denigrating minstrel characters and scenes in the ensuing years all form the back drop to what I argue is O’Connor’s campy performance in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”
Like the many musical recordings of this tune, O’Connor’s version offers a series of reversals and subversions, playing with the theme of who is “good,” and querying the social conditions that might provide context for doing or being “good.” In situating O’Connor’s story among the 150 or so recordings of the blues tune from the 1920’s to the 1950’s, including performances by Bessie Smith (1928), Fats Waller (1939), Frank Sinatra and Shelley Winters (1952), I argue she plays with racial codes and engages in a kind of vaudeville act. In O’Connor’s story, white travelers
Date: 09/14/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
"The Restoration of Andalusia" (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: "The Restoration of Andalusia"
Author: Matt Davis
Abstract: This talk is a comprehensive overview of the restoration of the buildings, property, and collections at Andalusia Farm, since Georgia College and State University took over stewardship of it in 2017. Discusses the design and building of the new Interpretative Center, which includes a gallery, gift shop, conference rooms, public lecture space, archival space, offices, and public facilities.
Date: 09/12/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“‘It Was Punk’: Reconsidering Rock and Roll Flannery O’Connor” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “‘It Was Punk’: Reconsidering Rock and Roll Flannery O’Connor”
Author: Monica Carol Miller
Abstract: This paper explores similarities between punk rock, rock and roll, and Flannery O'Connor's work.
Date: 09/13/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
“Regina after Flannery” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Regina after Flannery”
Author: Carol Loeb Shloss
Abstract: Shloss presented a chapter from her book-in-progress entitled Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles. Biographical research drawing upon artifacts, letters, photographs, diaries etc.
Date: 09/13/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
A Forum on Wildcat (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: A Forum on Wildcat
Author: Carol Loeb Shloss
Abstract: A panel discussing the Ethan Hawke biopic about O'Connor entitled Wildcat. Audience discussion.
Date: 09/12/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Tarwater: An Americana Album Exploring the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Tarwater: An Americana Album Exploring the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Abstract: A solo performance of Tarwater by Colin Cutler, as well as a presentation on the project and the interplay
of theology and art in O'Connor's work in conversation with O'Connor scholar Amy Alznauer. No
Depression has called Tarwater "one magnificent tapestry of roots music” that, according to Paste
Magazine, “follows in the trail led by equally O’Connor-obsessed artists like Bruce Springsteen and
Lucinda Williams” with "...juke joint energy coursing through it and a humidity that seems to sweat out the
sins and the booze that these characters are often soaked in.”
Author: Colin Cutler
Date: 05/25/2024
Location: The Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture (2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL)
"O'Connor's Other Art" (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: "O'Connor's Other Art"
Author: Robert Donahoo
Abstract: My paper focuses on descriptions of the painting techniques O'Connor uses as well as her subject matter. Having had some access to the unreleased paintings (finally), I am trying to situate O’Connor’s unpublished visual art within a better understanding of O’Connor’s aesthetic sensibilities in the Mid-Twentieth Century. I will show images of the paintings, which I was only allowed to access for a short time, then situate them within the larger conversation I am having with the book project, which focuses on how we should situate O’Connor as an artist.
Date: 05/24/2024
Conference Name: American Literature Association, 35th Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill.
“O’Connor and Music: Tracks from Tarwater” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “O’Connor and Music: Tracks from Tarwater”
Author: Colin Cutler
Abstract: A lecture/demo/discussion about using the Flannery O'Connor archives in Special Collections at Georgia College (with support from an NEH summer seminar award) to research and write songs based on O'Connor's work for the new album Tarwater. Discussion of creative use of the archives.
Date: 05/24/2024
Conference Name: American Literature Association, 34th annual conference, Chicago.
“The Artificial I-Word; or, Teaching Writing Teachers During a Decline of Canonical Authorship,” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “The Artificial I-Word; or, Teaching Writing Teachers During a Decline of Canonical Authorship,”
Author: Matt Bryant Cheney
Abstract: This presentation examines the implications of generative AI for literary studies, particularly focusing on questions of authorship and pedagogy through the lens of Flannery O'Connor Studies. Drawing on previously theoretical frameworks of authorship from Barthes, Foucault, and Bakhtin, I will consider the different ways that AI challenges traditional concepts of authorial voice and literary interpretation. Counter to Humanities’ overwhelming conception of AI as existential threat to our profession, I want to suggest that AI might serve literary studies as a tool for more objective textual analysis, especially when examining contentious issues like O'Connor's treatment of race. Toward this end, I use O'Connor's story "The Artificial Nigger" as a case study of how one might conduct an "authorless" reading that could provide new insights into literary texts independent of biographical or contextual information. Paradoxically, such an approach has the potential to enable a more precise understanding of authorial intent by forcing scholars to confront texts in isolation from their cultural and biographical contexts. This intervention in both O'Connor studies and broader conversations about AI in the humanities offers a constructive alternative to the prevalent narrative of AI pouring “gasoline on the fire” of the ever-present crisis in the Humanities.
Date: 05/25/2024
Conference Name: American Literature Association, 34th annual conference, Chicago
“No Lupus Alone: O’Connor in the Firestorm that was 1964,” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “No Lupus Alone: O’Connor in the Firestorm that was 1964,”
Author: Anne Ritter
Abstract: Two critical events bookend O’Connor’s last days: Lyndon Johnson’s assuming the U.S. Presidency (November 1963) and the March on Selma (March 1965). O’Connor’s lifeworld contained enormous contrasts during this period: professionally, a respected intellectual and leading Southern author; personally, an enigmatic daughter and privileged white woman under the care and cultural influence of her mother, vigilant Regina.Simultaneously, O’Connor’s mind and emotions were in a tug of war between Maryat Lee’s encouraging O’Connor to use her status and perspectives expressed in her fiction to stake out an editorial position on civil rights and O’Connor’s conflicted feelings about the personal cost of such choices. (At the time she refused to meet James Baldwin in Georgia, crosses had already been burned in and around Milledgeville.) In this cauldron of convergent events, O’Connor unsurprisingly exemplifies a relationship now being scrutinized: illness of the female reproductive system as reflecting life experiences—for O’Connor, an (unmentionable) fibroid tumor. Treatment and removal of the tumor reignited lupus symptoms and set off a cycle of interventions and systemic deterioration that ultimately caused her death.My presentation and project address social determinism and its role in illness and embodied manifestations of environmental stress. I examine status, but not in the way that the term is usually applied within determinism; and I use social context as it pertains to the highly fraught socio-political arena of 1964. I also draw O’Connor deep scholarship into the works of Edith Stein, who in turn had written extensively on empathy.
Date: 05/25/2024
Conference Name: American Literature Association, 34th Annual Conference, Chicago.
"’Divine Desire’: Flannery O'Connor Reads Depth Psychology" (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: "’Divine Desire’: Flannery O'Connor Reads Depth Psychology"
Author: William Gonch
Abstract: This paper explores Flannery O'Connor's complex engagement with depth psychology, arguing that she used psychological concepts not as a substitute for her Catholic faith but as a means to express religious experience in ways accessible to modern, often secular, readers. Drawing on her letters, essays, and fiction, I demonstrate how O'Connor employed Jungian ideas such as archetypes and the collective unconscious to reinterpret Catholic themes in her stories. While O'Connor was critical of psychology as a replacement for religion, her fiction reveals a more intricate relationship with psychological frameworks, particularly in her character development and symbolic structures.
In stories like Good Country People and The Displaced Person, psychological mechanisms such as projection, repression, and the shadow serve to deepen her exploration of grace, sin, and redemption. These psychological elements do not undermine her religious vision; instead, they provide a way to depict the inner workings of the soul and the potential for spiritual transformation in the midst of human flaws. This analysis challenges the conventional view that O'Connor's Catholicism and psychological theory are incompatible. Rather, it shows that her fiction creatively integrates psychological insights, allowing her to express theological truths in innovative ways. O'Connor’s work, therefore, exemplifies the dynamic interplay between faith and psychology in mid-twentieth-century American literature, revealing a more nuanced and imaginative approach to the sacred in the modern world.
Date: 05/25/2024
Conference Name: American Literature Association, 34th Annual Conference, Chicago.
Flannery O’Connor in the Fifth-Grade Classroom: Teaching Writing and Communication Using Author Study, Creative Writing, and Digital Humanities Activities (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Flannery O’Connor in the Fifth-Grade Classroom: Teaching Writing and Communication Using Author Study, Creative Writing, and Digital Humanities Activities
Author: Jordan Cofer
Abstract: Panel Discussion on an pedagogy project, supported by a U.S. Department of Education grant, to teach Flannery O'Connor in the elementary classroom. Discussion of lesson plans, field trips, podcasting workshops and projects, and author talks.
Date: 09/14/2024
Conference Name: Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back
"Flannery O'Connor and Other Writers" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Other Writers"
Abstract: This was a panel discussion on Flannery O'Connor's influence on other writers. Carmine Palumbo's remarks centered on the novelist John Kennedy Toole, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
Author: Carmine Palumbo
Date: 03/14/2024
Location: Zoom event; free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: A recording of this panel is archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website, under "Events."
Secondary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-6eyjR1UQ&list=PLGMLZkeEpyJeXdx6ldme-QC3euhvId7Tg&index=1Secondary URL Description: A recording of this public event is available on our You Tube Channel.
"Flannery O'Connor and Other Writers" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Other Writers"
Abstract: A panel presentation on Flannery O'Connor's influence on other writers. Jack Love's remarks centered on writer Dwight MacDonald, who edited publications such as the Partisan Review and Politics, and wrote for the NY Times, Esquire, Time Magazine, and Fortune.
Author: Jack Love
Date: 03/14/2024
Location: Zoom - online event, free and open to the public
Primary URL:
http://https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: The event was recorded and is archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website, under "Events," and "Past Events."
Secondary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-6eyjR1UQ&list=PLGMLZkeEpyJeXdx6ldme-QC3euhvId7Tg&index=1Secondary URL Description: The event was recorded and is available for free on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube Channel.
"Flannery O'Connor and Andalusia" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Andalusia"
Abstract: Massey's remarks concerned the farm setting for much of O'Connor's work, the topics of women farmers, the gothic setting for the farms and the undercutting of sentimental portraits of rural life. Massey also connected her analysis of O'Connor's work to contemporary social media offerings from women on farms, including Tic Tok influencers, bloggers, etc.
Author: Ashley Massey
Date: 05/09/2024
Location: Zoom. On-line event, free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: The event was recorded and is archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website. Free and available to the public.
Secondary URL:
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8I2pZEk6W4Secondary URL Description: The event was recorded and is archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel. Available free and open to the public.
"Flannery O'Connor and Andalusia" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Andalusia"
Abstract: NEH Summer Seminar veteran Vande Brake presented research he conducted while at Georgia College. He unearthed farm documents, and located historic sites pertaining to Andalusia Farm during O'Connor's tenure there. He presented photographs, maps, and data collected in the summer of 2023.
Author: Timothy Vande Brake
Date: 05/09/2024
Location: Zoom. Online and free.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: The event was recorded and is archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website, under "Events," and "Past Events."
Secondary URL:
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8I2pZEk6W4Secondary URL Description: The event was recorded and is archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel.
"Flannery O'Connor and Race" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Race"
Abstract: Gonch attended the 2023 NEH Summer Seminar at GCSU, and presents research begun during the tenure of the award. He coins the term "racial grotesque" to account for the complicated use of race in O'Connor's work, and analyzes such stories as "Judgement Day" using the framework of a racial grotesque style that critiques white character's use of black characters to formulate ideas of salvation based upon white supremacy. The violence that humbles the characters becomes a vehicle for their ultimate salvation. Racism becomes a form of sin in her stories.
Author: William Gonch
Date: 04/18/2024
Location: Zoom. Online event, free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: The event was recorded and is available on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website, under "Events" and "Past Events." Freely available to the public.
Secondary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjcoI268GSMSecondary URL Description: The event was recorded and is available on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel.
"Flannery O'Connor and Race" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Race"
Abstract: NEH summer seminar participant Cheney presented research conducted during his time as a fellow. Explored recent scholarship on O'Connor and Race, summarized the lectures and conversations during the NEH seminar on the topic of race, and added his own reflections on the kinds of frameworks needed to engage with this topic now.
Author: Matt Bryant Cheney
Date: 04/18/2024
Location: Zoom. Online event, free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: Recorded and archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities web site, under "Events," and the "Past Events" tab.
Secondary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjcoI268GSMSecondary URL Description: Recorded and archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel. Free and publicly available.
"Flannery O'Connor and Race" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Race"
Abstract: Panel discussion with participants from the NEH seminar. Murray's talk focused on O'Connor's views on race and explores why we continue teaching and writing about her work.
Author: Will Murray
Date: 04/18/2024
Location: Zoom. Online event, free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: The event was recorded and is available on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website.
Secondary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjcoI268GSMSecondary URL Description: The event was recorded and is available on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel.
"At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Walker" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Walker"
Abstract: NEH Summer Institute Lecturer Alznauer presents research in the archives that led to the Emory Special Collections exhibit on O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Bennie Andrews.
Author: Amy Alznauer
Date: 04/02/2024
Location: Zoom. Online event, free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: The event was recorded and is available on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website, under "Past Events."
Secondary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LESLB0sQXsISecondary URL Description: The event was recorded and is available on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel.
"Sex Positive Revelations" (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "Sex Positive Revelations"
Abstract: NEH Summer Institute participant Swan presents research begun during the tenure of his fellowship. Discusses the O'Connor story "Revelation" in terms of repressed sexuality, fat phobia, ugliness, sex positive views, and religious views on sexuality.
Author: Jesse Swan
Date: 02/01/2024
Location: Zoom event. Online, free, and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute/eventsPrimary URL Description: Recorded and archived on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities website, under "Past Events."
Interview with Colin Cutler (Web Resource)Title: Interview with Colin Cutler
Author: Colin Cutler
Abstract: Andalusia Institute/Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities podcast. Literacy mentor Timothy Connors talks with singer-songwriter and Colin Cutler about finding inspiration, the influence of Flannery O’Connor on Cutler’s music, and his experience in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Flannery O’Connor.
Year: 2023
Primary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljk3XFVnhIPrimary URL Description: Flannery O'Connor Institute You Tube channel. Free and open to the public.
"There is no [other] City: Flannery O'Connor and Evelyn Waugh on the Unreality and Necessity of Modern Political Life." (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: "There is no [other] City: Flannery O'Connor and Evelyn Waugh on the Unreality and Necessity of Modern Political Life."
Abstract: Taylor, the inaugural recipient of the Jean M. and William C. Laidlaw Junior Scholar Fellowship, spent time this summer with the O'Connor manuscripts in Special Collections at GCSU. His lecture is based on his dissertation in progress in the English Department at the University of Dallas. Taylor was a participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute, “Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor,” held at Georgia College in June 2023. This talk draws connections between O'Connor's work and the work of novelist Evelyn Waugh.
Author: Alex Taylor
Date: 08/02/2024
Location: Zoom. Online lecture, free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KomOY01hVP0Primary URL Description: Recorded and available on the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel.
Panel Discussion on Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Panel Discussion on Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Abstract: Scholars Colleen Warren and Thomas Haddox discuss Jessica Hooten Wilson's new release of O'Connor's unpublished manuscript, Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. Thomas Haddox was a 2023 NEH Summer Seminar Lecturer.
Author: Thomas Haddox
Date: 10/15/2024
Location: Zoom. Online event, free and open to the public.
Primary URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ipPVTOK5oPrimary URL Description: Recorded and available through the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities You Tube channel.
“The Racial Spaces of Waiting Rooms: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Revelation’ and Ernest Gaines’s ‘The Sky is Gray’ (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “The Racial Spaces of Waiting Rooms: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Revelation’ and Ernest Gaines’s ‘The Sky is Gray’
Author: Christine Atkins
Abstract: Few American authors have dealt so explicitly with racism as Flannery O’Connor. Her short stories are rife with depictions of Southern White Racism in its most basic and banal forms. Here I illustrate how juxtaposing Ernest Gaines’s 1963 short story “The Sky is Gray” against Flannery O’Connor’s 1965 story “Revelation” through the lens of critical race theory can function to help students and scholars understand the “truth” of systemic racism in the United States. In “Revelation,” protagonist Ruby Turpin sits in an all-white waiting room and espouses her short-sighted and surface-level sense of the hierarchy with regards to black people and poor whites. The story reveals O’Connor’s own blind spots with regards to the real impacts of racism as she overlooks systemic racism in the Jim Crow South and focuses instead on individual prejudice in lieu of structural forces that negatively impacted black people. In contrast, Gaines’s “The Sky is Gray” reveals an All-Black waiting room, where young James, waits for a white dentist to cure his toothache, and in the interim comprehends that knowledge that the evils of racism are housed in institutions like education, voting rights, housing, and health care--rather than individual prejudice--through the insights of a college student. While O’Connor’s Turpin is marked by personal prejudice, Gaines’s character James—a poor, young black boy surviving racial terrorism and disenfranchisement in Depression-Era South—learns how institutional racism is the more impactful than any individual prejudice. The later helps to make clear how O’Connor’s world-view falls short of informing systemic change.
Date: 05/24/2024
Conference Name: American Literature Association, 34th Annual Conference, Chicago
“Flannery O’Connor and the Question of Secular Suffering: The Case of Kenzaburo Ōe’s An Echo of Heaven” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Flannery O’Connor and the Question of Secular Suffering: The Case of Kenzaburo Ōe’s An Echo of Heaven”
Author: Thomas Haddox
Abstract: Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Ōe’s An Echo of Heaven features a mother who endures much in her life only to spend her final years working as a quasi-religious leader in America, inspired by the work of Flannery O’Connor. Despite the character’s abiding interest in O’Connor, she never officially converts to any form of Christianity, choosing instead to work out penance and charity on secular terms. In this essay, I will discuss how this curious feature in An Echo of Heaven provides helpful insights into Caron’s “apostates and true believers” binary by the dramatization of the sacred/secular divide.
Date: 06/23/2024
Conference Name: Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Gulf Port, Mississippi
Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do The Heathen Rage?: Making Sense of an Unearthed Novel-In-Progress (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do The Heathen Rage?: Making Sense of an Unearthed Novel-In-Progress
Author: Thomas Haddox
Abstract: Roundtable discussion on Jessica Hooten Wilson's republication of O'Connor's unfinished novel.
Date: 06/23/2024
Conference Name: Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Gulf Port, Mississippi.
Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do The Heathen Rage?: Making Sense of an Unearthed Novel-In-Progress (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do The Heathen Rage?: Making Sense of an Unearthed Novel-In-Progress
Author: Carmine Palumbo
Abstract: Roundtable discussion on Jessica Hooten Wilson's recent publication of O'Connor's unfinished novel.
Date: 06/23/24
Conference Name: Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Gulfport, Mississippi
“Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: Making Sense of an Unearthed Novel-in-Progress (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: Making Sense of an Unearthed Novel-in-Progress
Author: Anthony Szczesiul
Abstract: A roundtable discussion of the recent publication by Jessica Hooten Wilson of O'Connor's unpublished novel manuscript.
Date: 06/23/2024
Conference Name: Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Gulfport, Mississippi
“Reconstructing and Releasing Sites of Incarceration in Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville” (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: “Reconstructing and Releasing Sites of Incarceration in Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville”
Author: Ashley Massey
Abstract: The prison is one of the more ubiquitous places in the Southern landscape most often reconstructed. After overpopulation, disrepair, and dilapidation, they have been known to be repurposed into haunted houses, business parks, movie studios, and even distilleries. The state of Georgia was one of the first Southern states to construct a penitentiary. Following the Civil War, a large majority of the prison’s population consisted of Black men when imprisonment became the new mechanism of racist control which led to today’s carceral apparatus that confines Black Americans five times the rate of white Americans in state prisons. The former site of the Georgia Penitentiary in Milledgeville has long been cleared and now houses Georgia College & State University. Southern Gothic writer and Georgia College alumna Flannery O’Connor was from Milledgeville, a small town with multiple histories of incarceration that are not outright hidden but have been glazed over through modern retellings. These histories expand from the legacy of Georgia Penitentiary to Central State Hospital, which during O’Connor’s lifetime was thought to be the largest mental institution in the world. While much of O’Connor’s fiction does not explicably contend with these Southern sites of imprisonment, I argue that criminalization and incarceration informed her work through her place of privilege; O’Connor was surrounded by these Southern spaces of confinement but not entrapped by them. I believe this proximity to carceral settings influenced her characters and their view of the law. For this analysis, I refer to the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” as well as an early fragment titled “Sacrifice” found in the manuscripts of Flannery O’Connor at Georgia College & State University. Central State Hospital’s many buildings have now been repurposed into new sites of capitalist venture, including modern prison facilities, recycling one site of harm for another. What buildings are not repurposed
Date: 06/26/2024
Conference Name: Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Gulfport, Mississsippi
"Flannery O'Connor's Gothic Farm: The Transference from Idyll to Isolation" (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: "Flannery O'Connor's Gothic Farm: The Transference from Idyll to Isolation"
Author: Ashley Massey
Abstract: A consideration of the biographical and material conditions pertaining to Flannery O'Connor's life at Andalusia Farm as a framework for understanding the depiction of farm labor in her stories.
Date: 08/02/2024
Conference Name: Gothic Trans / Iterations The 2024 International Gothic Association Conference
"Introduction. Special Feature: Articles from the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute" (Article)Title: "Introduction. Special Feature: Articles from the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute"
Author: Robert Donahoo
Abstract: A special feature of the Flannery O'Connor Review, with articles based upon talks given at the 2023 NEH Summer Institute Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor. Donahoo's introduction discusses lectures by Carol Loeb Shloss (2023 Seminar Leader), and Thomas Haddox (2023 Seminar Leader).
Year: 2024
Access Model: subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Flannery O'Connor Review
Publisher: Georgia College
"Settling Into Andalusia" (Article)Title: "Settling Into Andalusia"
Author: Carol Loeb Shloss
Abstract: NEH Seminar Leader Shloss publishes here a chapter from her forthcoming book Flannery and Regina, which she presented previously during the 2023 NEH Summer Seminar in Milledgeville, GA. Drawing upon archival material from Andalusia Farm and Special Collections, Shloss presents new data and a new framework for understanding O'Connor's life.
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Flannery O'Connor Review
Publisher: Georgia College
"Flannery O'Connor Against Bare Life" (Article)Title: "Flannery O'Connor Against Bare Life"
Author: Thomas F. Haddox
Abstract: 2023 NEH Seminar Leader Haddox here publishes a version of the talk he gave at the Summer Institute in Milledgeville. Using Agambe's influential theory of "bare life" he examines O'Connor's illness, disability and death. He identifies the term "ambient unwellness" and uses it to understand O'Connor's fiction.
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Flannery O'Connor Review
Publisher: Georgia College
Review of Film Wildcat (Article)Title: Review of Film Wildcat
Author: Carol Loeb Shloss
Abstract: Film review of the 2024 film about Flannery O'Connor entitled Wildcat. Directed by Ethan Hawke, starring Maya Hawke. Shloss was a 2023 NEH Summer Seminar leader.
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Flannery O'Connor Review
Publisher: Georgia College
"Flannery O'Connor and Fashion" (Article)Title: "Flannery O'Connor and Fashion"
Author: Monica Carol Miller
Abstract: Discusses recently acquired clothing from the Flannery O'Connor estate, and discusses the relationship between Regina O'Connor and Flannery O'Connor.
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Flannery O'Connor Review
Publisher: Georgia College
"Remembering Louise Florencourt" (Article)Title: "Remembering Louise Florencourt"
Author: Robert Donahoo
Abstract: 2023 NEH Summer Seminar Co-Director Donahoo presents a remembrance of Louise Florencourt, Flannery O'Connor's cousin and the executer of Flannery O'Connor's literary estate. Based upon a series of interviews he conducted, including one during the tenure of the seminar.
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Flannery O'Connor Review
Publisher: Georgia College
"Milledgeville: Flannery O'Connor at Home" (Article)Title: "Milledgeville: Flannery O'Connor at Home"
Author: Sarah Gordon
Abstract: 2023 NEH Summer Institute lecturer Gordon discusses the role of place in the life and work of Flannery O'Connor. Topics include racism, gender, illness, and religion.
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Flannery O'Connor Review
Publisher: Georgia College
Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood
Author: Craig Martell
Abstract: NEH Summer Institute participant Craig Martell created this course for the OSHER Lifelong Learning Series course for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 2023. Five weeks of guest lectures from O'Connor scholars having to do with her first novel Wise Blood.
Year: 2023
Audience: General Public
Flannery O'Connor: History, Landscape, Relationship, Modernity (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Flannery O'Connor: History, Landscape, Relationship, Modernity
Author: Craig Martell
Abstract: NEH fellow Craig Martell created this course (OSHER 144) for the OSHER Lifelong Learning Series course for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Spring 2024. Five weeks of guest lectures from O'Connor scholars on the topic.
Year: 2024
Audience: General Public
O'Connor and Mystery (Course or Curricular Material)Title: O'Connor and Mystery
Author: Craig Martell
Abstract: NEH fellow Craig Martell created this course for the OSHER Lifelong Learning Series course for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 2023. Five weeks of guest lectures from O'Connor scholars on the topic.
Year: 2024
Audience: General Public
"A Fondness for Supermarkets: Wise Blood and Consumer Culture." (Course or Curricular Material)Title: "A Fondness for Supermarkets: Wise Blood and Consumer Culture."
Author: Jon Lance Bacon
Abstract: NEH lecturer Bacon delivers an invited guest lecture in OSHER 140: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, NEH fellow Craig Martell's course for the OSHER Lifelong Learning Series course for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 2023. Bacon contextualizes the novel in relation to popular culture in the early 1950's.
Year: 2023
Audience: General Public
"Listen Here: Sabbath Lily Hawk's Prophetic Tales in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." (Course or Curricular Material)Title: "Listen Here: Sabbath Lily Hawk's Prophetic Tales in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood."
Author: Alex Taylor
Abstract: NEH fellow Alex Taylor delivers a guest lecture in NEH Fellow Craig Martell's course OSHER 140: Flannery O'Connor's Wiseblood, Nov. 13, 2023, OSHER Lifelong Learning Series, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Taylor's lecture focuses in on the topic of prophesy in relation to one character in the novel.
Year: 2023
Audience: General Public
"The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor" (Course or Curricular Material)Title: "The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor"
Author: Jordan Cofer
Abstract: NEH PI Jordan Cofer delivers a guest lecture in NEH Fellow Craig Martell's course OSHER 140: Flannery O'Connor's Wiseblood, Nov. 13, 2023, OSHER Lifelong Learning Series, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Cofer's lecture focuses in on the topic of religion in the novel.
Year: 2023
Audience: General Public
"The Andalusia Chronicles: Settling In" (Course or Curricular Material)Title: "The Andalusia Chronicles: Settling In"
Author: Carol Loeb Shloss
Abstract: NEH Summer Institute seminar leader Shloss delivers a guest lecture in NEH Fellow Craig Martell's course OSHER 144: Flannery O'Connor: History, Landscape, Relationship, Modernity. April 29, 2024. OSHER Lifelong Learning Series, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Shloss's lecture draws upon new biographical and historical research, and is part of her biography of Flannery and Regina O'Connor.
Year: 2024
Audience: General Public
"Somewhere is Better Than Nowhere: Flannery O'Connor on Being Southern and Catholic" (Course or Curricular Material)Title: "Somewhere is Better Than Nowhere: Flannery O'Connor on Being Southern and Catholic"
Author: Christina Bieber Lake
Abstract: NEH Summer Institute seminar leader Lake delivers a guest lecture in NEH participant Craig Martell's course OSHER 11.0: Special Topics, O'Connor and Mystery, for the OSHER Lifelong Learning Series, Nov. 11, 2024. Lake's lecture situates O'Connor's fiction in the context of her region and her religion.
Year: 2024
Audience: General Public
"Heathens and Archives; or, The Unfinished Novel O'Connor Didn't Want Us to Read" (Course or Curricular Material)Title: "Heathens and Archives; or, The Unfinished Novel O'Connor Didn't Want Us to Read"
Author: Matt Bryant Cheney
Abstract: NEH summer seminar participant Cheney delivers a guest lecture in NEH summer seminar participant Craig Martell's course OSHER 11.0: Special Topics, O'Connor and Mystery, for the OSHER Lifelong Learning Series, at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, November 18, 2024. Cheney's lecture explores the recent publication of O'Connor's unfinished manuscript, and discusses the possible uses students and scholars might find for this material.
Year: 2024
Audience: General Public