Keynote Speech by Dr. Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas, "The Haunting Landscape: Flannery O'Connor's Exploration of Humanity in the Anthropocene"

Dr. Lisa Hinrichsen, associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, teaches modern and contemporary southern literature, transatlantic modernism, contemporary multicultural writing and ecocriticism. She's the author of Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature (LSU) and co-editor, along with Gina Caison and Stephanie Rountree, of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU), Remediating Region: New Media and the US South (LSU) and the forthcoming Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region (LSU). Her service to the profession includes time as the president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (2018-2020) and the Arkansas Philological Association (2011-2012). Current projects include an essay for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Southern Gothic and the completion of a book manuscript, Subterranean Souths: Deep Time and Space 1970-2020.

This is part of the Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.