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GCSU assemblage travel to London UK for Flannery Abroad Conference
Announcement    Thursday, May 29, 2025
The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities along with colleagues and alumni from the Department of English travel in June to present at the Flannery Abroad conference hosted in London, England by Fordham University. Dr. Bruce Gentry, professor emerita and editor of the Flannery O’Connor Review, will give a keynote speech on Friday, June 6, "My Decades at the Circus: Thoughts on Editing the Flannery O'Connor Review" about his time editing the country’s oldest continuously published...
Flannery O'Connor Book Club May Meeting
Event    Thursday, May 15, 2025
Join us Thursday, May 15, for the last Flannery O'Connor Book Club of the academic year! We will discuss Flannery O’Connor’s Introduction to the "Memoir of Mary Ann," about which O’Connor said “nobody will ever understand me unless they read this essay.”  (2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7 p.m.) Register via Smartsheet for the Zoom link.https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/870eaef5f3444efebd82d14bccfd29a7  
History Harvest Days seeking storytellers
Event    Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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,...
Bob Donahoo presents "O'Connor's Other Art"
Event    Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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...
Flannery O'Connor Book Club March Meeting
Event    Thursday, March 20, 2025
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.
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...
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