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Dr. Sarah Gordon reads from her new poetry collection
Event    Thursday, April 10, 2025
The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities presents a poetry reading in celebration of Sarah Gordon’s new poetry collection, "Six White Horses," published by Mercer University Press. This event is free and open to the public. Sarah Gordon is the author of widely published poems and two previous collections of poetry: "Distances" and "The Lost Thing" as well as "Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination" and "A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia." Gordon is professor...
Peacock feather motif frames information about Sarah Gordon's visit to read her poetry
Flannery O'Connor Book Club February Meeting
Event    Thursday, February 20, 2025
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 20, for the Flannery O’Connor Book Club! We'll discuss Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read Chapters 4-7. We'll meet at 2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum and on Zoom at 7 p.m. Register for the Zoom link at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/f74a7ef2bec04c29a98c8ac78c0fed89.
Carol Shloss, visiting scholar/author- "Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles"
Event    Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Carol Loeb Shloss, former acting professor of English at Stanford University, has written widely and variously about literary modernism. The author of one of the first books about Flannery O’Connor, she is returning to the field after award winning works on the families of James Joyce and Ezra Pound. Changing her focus from fathers and daughters to mothers and daughters, her current book is called "Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles."Join us to hear about her new project...
Southern Gothic Lecture Series: “Jesmyn Ward’s Ecogothic”  
Event    Tuesday, February 25, 2025
The O'Connor Institute is continuing the Inaugural Southern Gothic Lectures Series! Join us for this interdisciplinary series of discussions among the fields of literature, environmental studies and southern studies.Teresa A. Goddu is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She's the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History and Nation (Columbia University Press) and Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her...
Southern Gothic Lecture Series: “The Rougarou and the Rise of the Cajun Ecogothic” 
Announcement    Wednesday, January 29, 2025
The O'Connor Institute is kicking off the Inaugural Southern Gothic Lectures Series! Join us for this interdisciplinary series of discussions among the fields of literature, environmental studies and southern studies.Sara L. Crosby hails from an island off the coast of Louisiana. She's a professor of English at The Ohio State University at Marion where she teaches classes on everything from early American literature to pop culture to environmental writing. She has authored two monographs...
Inaugural Southern Gothic Lecture Series: “The Rougarou and the Rise of the Cajun Ecogothic” 
Event    Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The O'Connor Institute is kicking off the Inaugural Southern Gothic Lectures Series! Join us for this interdisciplinary series of discussions among the fields of literature, environmental studies and southern studies.Sara L. Crosby hails from an island off the coast of Louisiana. She's a professor of English at The Ohio State University at Marion where she teaches classes on everything from early American literature to pop culture to environmental writing. She has authored two monographs...
Flannery O'Connor Book Club January Meeting
Event    Thursday, January 23, 2025
Join us on Thursday, Jan. 23, for the Flannery O’Connor Book Club! We'll discuss Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read the Prologue and Chapters 1-3. We'll meet at 2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum and on Zoom at 7 p.m. Register for the Zoom link at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/00f8af20502641f88fb3c9d52b9551c5.
Flannery O'Connor Book Club: Dear Regina
Event    Thursday, December 12, 2024
Join us to discuss Dear Regina by Monica Miller. Miller has collected O’Connor’s letters home during her years in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of Iowa. (2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7 p.m.)
Driving While Black?: Mobility, Race and Travel in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Event    Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Join us for a Zoom talk by interim executive director Dr. Katie Simon discussing the connections between race and mobility in one of Flannery O'Connor's most famous stories. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/3d95cc87c521473bb0fe9bd787c0b3e0.
Flannery O'Connor Book Club celebrates Picture Book Month
Event    Thursday, November 21, 2024
In honor of National Picture Book Month, the Flannery O'Connor Book Club will read and discuss two picture books based on O’Connor’s life: Acree Graham Macam and Natalie Nelson’s "The King of the Birds" and Amy Alznauer’s "The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor." (2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7 p.m.) No prior reading is required and all are welcome to attend. https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/555c52ae10c34e6c821705b03ab90a9c  
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