NEH Summer Institute results - March discussion on Zoom

We are pleased to announce that Andalusia Institute is hosting a series of spring Zoom events, primarily to share the results of NEH Summer Institutes on Flannery O'Connor. Dr. Bruce Gentry will be the emcee on all events.

Thursday, March 14 - 7-8 p.m. (Eastern): Carmine Palumbo and Jack Love will lead a discussion on O'Connor and other authors.  

Carmine Palumbo is a Professor of English at East Georgia State College in Swainsboro, Georgia, where he has taught and served as an academic administrator for nearly two decades.  He was previously Chair of Humanities at Middle Georgia College in Cochran.  He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature and Folklore from the University of Louisiana, where began his interest in the life and work of the late New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole, who taught at UL for several years prior to the posthumous publication of his Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces.  Palumbo was a participant in the NEH Summer Institute “Rediscovering Flannery O’Connor” in Milledgeville in 2023.  He lives in Swainsboro with his wife and two children.

Jack Love is a PhD student at Texas A&M University in the English department. He studies late 19th to mid 20th century American literature with a specific focus on the American South, religion, and the environment. His topic of discussion looks at the religion of O'Connor's Wise Blood through the paradigm of Dwight Macdonald's masscult and midcult. A forthcoming article on the topic will be published in the March 2024 issue of Christianity and Literature.  

To sign-up for this Zoom discussion, please click HERE.