Bob Donahoo presents "O'Connor's Other Art"

Join us Wednesday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom to hear more about the visual art of Flannery O'Connor from Dr. Robert "Bob" Donahoo. A reception hosted by the O'Connor Institute will follow. O'Connor's newly unveiled art will be on display in Magnolia Ballroom from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. before the event.

Robert Donahoo is a professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Texas. He has been active in Flannery O'Connor studies for over 30 years, co-editing two collections of essays on O'Connor, most recently "Approaches to Teaching Flannery O'Connor," published by the Modern Language Association in 2019. He has co-directed with Marshall Bruce Gentry two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes on "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor" (2014 and 2023). He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on O'Connor, as well as on the drama of Horton Foote, Southern novelists Harper Lee, Larry Brown and Clyde Edgerton, Postmodern Science Fiction, and Tolstoy's Resurrection. As a teacher, he focuses on American Literature, particularly Southern fiction and drama. As a hobby, he reviews theater productions in the Houston area for a suburban paper. He's currently working on a long-delayed monograph focused on O'Connor and regional history.