O'Connor Institute

The Flannery O'Connor Institute Lecture Series

Announcement Thursday, July 25, 2024

Alex Taylor, "There is no [other] City: Flannery O'Connor and Evelyn Waugh on the Unreality and Necessity of Modern Political Life."Register: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/83ca101ff6bd42f5ad1f6a7d2cf8ccb8

The Flannery O'Connor Institute Lecture Series

Event Thursday, August 1, 2024

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...

Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities Announces winner of Jean M. and William C. Laidlaw Junior Scholar Fellowship

Announcement Thursday, May 2, 2024

Georgia College & State University’s Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities, which is dedicated to the study of Flannery O’Connor, proudly announces Alex Taylor as the inaugural recipient of the Jean M. and William C. Laidlaw Junior Scholar Fellowship. Taylor, a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and fellow for Criticism at the University of Dallas, brings a wealth of experience and expertise. He previously participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute,...

NEH Oral History grant: Collecting the Past Celebration

Announcement Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Come, celebrate the National Endowment for the Humanities Oral History grant "Flannery O'Connor and Milledgeville: Collecting the Past" and Georgia College & State University students on April 24 from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m.at the Sallie Ellis Davis House. Georgia College students, with the assistance of the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities, have been conducting interviews in the spring 2024 semester that focus on expanding the existing historical narrative of Milledgeville...

NEH Oral History grant: Collecting the Past Celebration

Event Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Creative writers and writing in the K12 classroom registration open (Free event!)

Event Thursday, June 6, 2024

This hybrid symposium showcases project results from the Writing for Success grant with the focus on creative writing in the K12 classroom. Educators, writers, scholars and students are invited to attend presentations about implementing an author study in fifth grade classrooms, creative writing and podcasting workshops for students and digital humanities connections to teaching literacy. During the symposium, the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities will release the newly...

Creative Writers & Writing in the K12 Classroom registration now open (free event!)

Event Thursday, June 6, 2024

This hybrid symposium showcases project results from the Writing for Success grant, focusing on the theme "Creative Writers & Writing in the K12 Classroom." Educators, writers, scholars, and students are invited to attend presentations about implementing an author study in 5th grade classrooms, creative writing and podcasting workshops for students, and digital humanities connections to teaching literacy. During the symposium, the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities will...

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Creative Writers & Writing in the K12 Classroom registration now open (free event!)

Event Thursday, June 6, 2024

GCSU announces name change for Andalusia Institute, now “Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities”

Announcement Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Georgia College & State University’s Andalusia Institute is now the “Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities.” The O’Connor Institute – the public arts and humanities center of Georgia College – supports Flannery O’Connor scholarship, nourishes writing and the creative arts, and engages community members with public events centered on literary and creative works by O’Connor and other authors, scholars and artists. The renaming of the institute coincides with what would have...

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