O'Connor Institute

Join the Collecting the Past team for two upcoming history harvest days! Student interviewers will talk to community members to preserve their stories of Milledgeville-Baldwin County. Please share with your family, friends and neighbors who may be interested.Topics of interest include Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Memory Hill Cemetery, Lake Sinclair, McDade Grocery, Allen's Market, Grist Mill / Hydro-electric Dam (Oconee River), Magnolia Bank (formerly Baldwin Hotel), Boddie High School,...

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...

Join us Thursday, March 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 8-10. 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/6af9e5bae9ec41ba85f7f110e851e71f.

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.

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...

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...

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.