O'Connor Institute

The Flannery O'Connor book club kicks off spring semester to discuss the first half of O'Connor's novel Wiseblood, facilitated by Dr. Bruce Gentry. The discussion is free and open to the public. Come even if you don't have time to read the book. We will screen the film by John Huston later in the semester. The talk takes place at 2 p.m. in person at the Georgia Writers Museum in Eatonton and at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Please email oconnorinstitute@gcsu.edu for the Zoom link.

This talk will discuss recent donations of archival resources to Georgia College & State University. First editions, unopened letters, annotated books by canonical authors and more. Dr. Farrell O'Gorman is a professor of English at Belmont Abbey College. His publications include Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination (2017), from University of Notre Dame Press, and Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern...

Directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish, this classic Southern horror/thriller does not disappoint. Based on a true story, it features a serial killer who poses as a preacher. Screenplay by James Agee. With an Introduction by English Department Lecturer Jonna Smith and a discussion afterwards. Free and open to the public. Invite your friends to watch this influential film on the big screen. 

Karin Coonrod of the Yale University Theatre Department will be on campus this week. Following the Thursday evening film screening and panel discussion of her theatrical adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge," she will demonstrate her collaborative directing style with Georgia College & State University Theatre Students in an interactive format. The event takes place at the Black Box Theatre, 137 W. Hancock, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14. 

Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. for a Zoom lecture on Flannery O'Connor and archival material. This double bill features Kathleen Lipovski Helal (University of Texas at Austin) and Jack Love (Texas A&M University). Dr. Lipovski Helal's talk is titled “A Mystery Box: Flannery O’Connor in the Archives,” which refers to a recently-discovered box of O'Connor materials housed at UT's Harry Ransom Center. Dr. Lipovski Helal’s article on the same subject appears in this year’s Flannery...