O'Connor Institute

Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor: Links, Likeness, Legacy
Event    Thursday, November 14, 2024
This talk by scholar-in-residence, Dr. Farrell O'Gorman, will detail how Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), one of the most acclaimed American novelists of the last 50 years, is inextricably linked to Flannery O’Connor. He repeatedly praised her in the early years of his career–most substantially in his correspondence with Robert Coles, an influential Harvard child psychiatrist who wrote extensively on O’Connor while also acting as a patron to McCarthy. In his fiction, McCarthy, like O’Connor,...
Flannery O'Connor Book Club: Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Announcement    Thursday, October 17, 2024
We will meet to discuss Jessica Hooten Wilson’s new book, Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. This is a recent publication of an unpublished manuscript that O’Connor left behind, along with notes and ideas she had documented. It takes her thinking about race far beyond what she had done in her short life, and presents the opportunity for tantalizing speculation. (2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum;...
Podcasting Workshop
Event    Thursday, October 24, 2024
The NEH grant, Collecting the Past, in collaboration with the Ina Dillard Russell Library, will host a podcasting workshop Oct. 24 from 1 to 2 p.m., in Room 241 of Russell Library and Nov. 12 from 5:30 until 6:30 p.m. in the Museum Education Room. This workshop is geared towards beginners who would like to learn about and/or get started with podcasting and is open to the community, faculty, staff and students. Recommended technology to bring to this session would be a laptop and computer...
Flannery O'Connor Book Club
Event    Friday, November 22, 2024
It's National Picture Book Month! The Flannery O'Connor Book Club with 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." We will meet in person at 2 p.m. at the Georgia Writers Museum in Eatonton and online via Zoom at 7 p.m. Sign up to get the Zoom link.  
Flannery O'Connor and Music Zoom Talk
Event    Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Join us on Zoom to with guest speakers Irwin Streight and Monica Miller to discuss O'Connor and music. Streight examines O'Connor's influence on the art and vision of multiple Grammy Award winners Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, R.E.M. and U2, along with celebrated songwriters Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Mary Gauthier, Tom Waits and others. Miller presents about O'Connor's punk sensibility. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/6c77d07456884fa1b190dbce55a75d19.
Flannery O'Connor Book Club: Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Event    Thursday, October 17, 2024
We will meet to discuss Jessica Hooten Wilson’s new book, Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. This is a recent publication of an unpublished manuscript that O’Connor left behind, along with notes and ideas she had documented. It takes her thinking about race far beyond what she had done in her short life, and presents the opportunity for tantalizing speculation. (2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum;...
Flannery at 100 Film Screening: Wildcat 
Event    Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Come see this recent major motion picture release on the big screen in Russell Auditorium! Our very own Flannery O'Connor scholar Bruce Gentry will give a brief talk about O'Connor's high school and college days that took place right here in Milledgeville. The film features Maya Hawke in the lead role and adapts some of Flannery O'Connor's stories within a loosely biographical frame. Thanks to the support of the President's office, the Provost's office and GCSU Foundation, this event...
Official movie poster for Wildcat
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O'Connor Scholar Bruce Gentry reflects on decades spent studying Flannery
News Story    Thursday, May 9, 2024
With dozens of academic publications to his credit on the subject of Flannery O’Connor, ’45, you would never know that Dr. Bruce Gentry had a negative reaction the first time he read the famous author’s work.“The first time I was given a Flannery O’Connor story to read, it scared me,” Gentry said. “I didn’t immediately fall in love with this author. But I couldn’t forget ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’”Gentry says that as an undergraduate student of English and journalism at the University...
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Georgia College receives federal grant for writing and literacy outreach in Baldwin Schools
News Story    Tuesday, March 29, 2022
A nearly $400,000 grant will help promote writing and literacy skills for youth in Baldwin County schools. Georgia College has been awarded funds for a new Writing for Success program from the Department of Education. The program will include a combination of workshops, one-on-one consultations and peer advising for K-12 students at their schools. “Georgia College is committed to supporting our community and is dedicated to fostering the success of students in our local public schools...
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New Andalusia Institute has robust opening
News Story    Thursday, October 29, 2020
It was a bizarre time to begin a new job—let alone launch an organization from scratch.  COVID-19 quickly turned Dr. Irene Burgess’ new position as inaugural executive director of Georgia College’s new Andalusia Institute into a quagmire of possible pitfalls. But the opening was ‘virtually’ flawless. “It’s gratifying that we’ve been able to develop the start of an Andalusia Institute culture, despite the challenges of the time,” Burgess said. “Actually, COVID was one of the better...
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