O'Connor Institute

Event    Tuesday, February 25, 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.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...
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...
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...
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.
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.)
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.
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  
Announcement    Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Did you know “The King of the Birds” by Acree Graham Macam and Natalie Nelson, “The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor” by Amy Alznauer and illustrated by Ping Zhu, and Mary Carpenter’s middle grades book “Flannery O’Connor: A Girl Who Knew Her Own Mind” are the texts studied in the Writing for Success curriculum? Join us on Tuesday, November 12 at 2:00pm for a special info session on how these books bring a local author to life in the Flannery O’Connor and Storytelling unit of study...
Event    Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Did you know “The King of the Birds” by Acree Graham Macam and Natalie Nelson, “The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor” by Amy Alznauer and illustrated by Ping Zhu, and Mary Carpenter’s middle grades book “Flannery O’Connor: A Girl Who Knew Her Own Mind” are the texts studied in the Writing for Success curriculum? Join us Tuesday, Nov. 12 at  2 p.m. for a special info session on how these books bring a local author to life in the Flannery O’Connor and Storytelling unit of study for...
Event    Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Friends of the Writing for Success grant are invited to one final celebration! The grant funds allowed us to purchase additional podcasting bundles to supply to educators who want to continue the storytelling and podcasting lessons from the project. These podcasting setups are the same models used in Baldwin County Schools and with educational partners during the Writing for Success grant. Using these materials, students created their own podcasts which were edited and made available...