Keynote Speech by Dr. Mab Segrest, Connecticut College, “How DO Mules Fly?: Flannery O’Connor, Race, and ‘the traditions of the society [she feeds] on’”

Dr. Mab Segrest, Connecticut College, is the former Fuller Matthai professor of Gender and Women's Studies, She is the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, an outstanding book on human rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards and Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (both published by The New Press), as well as of Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice (Rutgers). In 2015, she served as the Martha Daniel Newell Scholar at Georgia College & State University and a past fellow at the National Humanities Center. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.