Why Flannery? | Wednesday, January 8, 12:00 pm | 3025 Bull Street (member discount available)
As Savannah looks toward the centennial birthday of Flannery O’Connor, a panel of O’Connor experts and aficionados and experts convene to discuss her life and writing. In a conversation moderated by Mary Villeponteaux, GSU literature professor and president of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum, the scholars remind longtime Flannery fans of why they love the Georgia author, and share with newcomers to O’Connor’s odd life and mysterious fiction their own answers to the question: “Why Flannery?”
PARTICPANTS
Janie Bragg: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum, Executive Director
Lee Griffith: Creative Writing Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design
Joni Saxon-Giusti: Independent Bookseller and O’Connor Aficionado
Mary Villeponteaux: English Professor at Georgia Southern University
Patricia Ann West: Writer, Gullah-Geechee Literary Researcher, O’Connor Scholar, and Retired English Professor
at Savannah State University
As Savannah looks toward the centennial birthday of Flannery O’Connor, a panel of O’Connor experts and aficionados and experts convene to discuss her life and writing. In a conversation moderated by Mary Villeponteaux, GSU literature professor and president of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum, the scholars remind longtime Flannery fans of why they love the Georgia author, and share with newcomers to O’Connor’s odd life and mysterious fiction their own answers to the question: “Why Flannery?”
PARTICPANTS
Janie Bragg: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum, Executive Director
Lee Griffith: Creative Writing Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design
Joni Saxon-Giusti: Independent Bookseller and O’Connor Aficionado
Mary Villeponteaux: English Professor at Georgia Southern University
Patricia Ann West: Writer, Gullah-Geechee Literary Researcher, O’Connor Scholar, and Retired English Professor
at Savannah State University
As Savannah looks toward the centennial birthday of Flannery O’Connor, a panel of O’Connor experts and aficionados and experts convene to discuss her life and writing. In a conversation moderated by Mary Villeponteaux, GSU literature professor and president of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum, the scholars remind longtime Flannery fans of why they love the Georgia author, and share with newcomers to O’Connor’s odd life and mysterious fiction their own answers to the question: “Why Flannery?”
PARTICPANTS
Janie Bragg: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum, Executive Director
Lee Griffith: Creative Writing Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design
Joni Saxon-Giusti: Independent Bookseller and O’Connor Aficionado
Mary Villeponteaux: English Professor at Georgia Southern University
Patricia Ann West: Writer, Gullah-Geechee Literary Researcher, O’Connor Scholar, and Retired English Professor
at Savannah State University