The 2008 Flannery O'Connor Conference

Papers and Film, Museum Education Room

Barbara Bogue, Ball State University: "A Writer Dreaming in the Scholars' House"
 

Film screening of The River (free and open to the public)
 

Paige Huskey, Wright State University: "'Believe Jesus or the Devil!': The Didactic Nature of Flannery O'Connor's 'The River'"
 

Session Chair: Bruce Gentry, GCSU

Barry Moser, Museum Education Room

Remarks by Barry Moser on exhibit of his work

Introduction by Sarah Gordon, GCSU

Papers, Museum Education Room

Bridget Tomich, Grand Valley State University, "Chasing the Turkey: American Dream as Economics of Faith as seen in Flannery O'Connor's 'The Turkey'"

John J. Han, Missouri Baptist University: "Departing the Corporeal World: O'Connor's Idea of Christian Redemption in 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find,' 'The River,' and 'The Displaced Person'"

George Piggford, C.S.C., Stonehill College: "O'Connor's Dark Night in 'Greenleaf'"

Session Chair: Randall Wilhelm, University of Tennessee

Papers, Museum Education Room

Ruth Reiniche, Grand Valley State University: "The Crucifix and the Surplice: Resonant Objects and Naive Narrators in O'Connor's 'A Temple of the Holy Ghost' and Faulkner's 'Shingles for the Lord'"

Joy A. Farmer, Reinhardt College: "No Wedding and Two Funerals: 'A Rose for Emily' and 'Good Country People' as Studies in the Southern Marriage Problem"

Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University: "'Jolted Back to Life by Her Touch': Transcendent Eros in Flannery's 'Parker's Back' and Faulkner's 'Pantaloon in Black'"

Session Chair: Teresa Caruso, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

Reading by Martin Lammon, Arts & Sciences Auditorium

Introduction by Laura Newbern, GCSU

Film, Museum Education Room

Film Screening of A Circle in the Fire (free and open to the public)

Introduction by William Monroe, University of Houston

Reading by Sandra Worsham, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Introduction by Bruce Gentry, GCSU

Papers, Arts & Sciences Auditorium

Steve Watkins, University of Phoenix: "Who is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: The Other Catholic Guy?"

Jordan R. Cofer, Texas Tech University: "Biblical Recapitulation in Flannery O'Connor's 'Parker's Back'"

Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent: "Back to Page One: Parker's Byzantine Icon and Flannery's Last Story"

Session Chair: William Monroe, University of Houston

Walking Tour of Milledgeville Historic District

Tour Guide: Dr. Bob Wilson, GCSU

The tour is open to the first fifteen people who sign up for the tour at the Chappell Hall registration desk. The tour will begin in the lobby of Chappell Hall.

Papers, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Christine M. McCulloch, Emory University: "Pinioning the Artist in O'Connor's 'The Enduring Chill'"

Sarah Gordon, GCSU: "Joe Gould, Daddy Hall, and Lady Olga: The New Yorker's Joseph Mitchell and Flannery O'Connor"

Session Chair:  Robert Donahoo, Sam Houston State University

Film, Museum Education Room

Film Screening of Galleyproof (free and open to the public)

Introduction by Bruce Gentry, GCSU

Central State Hospital: An Introduction and Tour

Tour Guide: Josephine Keese King, GCSU

King will introduce Central State Hospital for about an hour and then lead a caravan of automobiles to CSH for a brief tour, culminating at the CSH Museum.

Participants will gather in the Museum Education Room for the introduction.

Papers, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Phil E. Shaw, University of Denver: "'What He Going Toward It For?' - Existential Identity and the Heideggerian Authenticity in 'Wildcat'"

Carolyn M. Kerr, Salem State College: "Getting to the Roots of Nausea in Sartre and O'Connor"

Adam Charles Bowers, Princeton Theological Seminary: "The Narratological Problem of 'Eternity Within Time' in Faulkner and O'Connor"

Session Chair: Margaret Whitt, University of Denver

Films, Museum Education Room

Film Screening of Good Country People (free and open to the public)

Film Screening of The Life You Save (free and open to the public)

Introduction by Brad Gooch, William Paterson University

Papers by Georgia Southern University Students, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

W. Jesse Ogden: "'[She's] Got the Whole World in [Her] Hands': Religion and Hands in Flannery O'Connor's 'The Peeler' and Wise Blood

Jenna Jones: "Animals and Religious Revelation in Three Stories by Flannery O'Connor"

Mary Ann Rogers: "'Just a Little Trashy': A Fascination with Tales of the Morbid and Grotesque in Three Stories by Flannery O'Connor"

Jamie Meyer: "Flannery O'Connor: Colors of Redemption"

Session Chair: Linda Rohrer Paige, Georgia Southern University

Film, Andalusia

Film Screening of The Displaced Person (free and open to the public)

Evening Session, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Reading by Alice Friman

Keynote Lecture by Jay Watson: "Faulkner and Flannery: Two Case Histories in the Aesthetics, Psychology and Economics of the Twentieth-Century American Short Story"

Introductions by John D. Cox, GCSU

Panel, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

NEH Summer Institute, "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor," Participants

"Teaching the Stories of Flannery O'Connor"

Panelists:
Barbara Bogue, Ball State University
Robert Donahoo, Sam Houston State University
Carole K. Harris, New York City College of Technology
Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University
William Monroe, University of Houston
Linda Rohrer Paige, Georgia Southern University
Charlotte Thomas, Mercer University
Steve Watkins, University of Phoenix
Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent

Session Chair:  John D. Cox, GCSU

Papers, Museum Education Room

Ashleigh Eisinger, GCSU: "Outsiders Looking In: The Critical Role of the Outsider Figure in the Stories of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner"

Victoria Kennefick, University College, Cork (Ireland): "'You Would Have to Be Born There':  Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner - Translating the Transnational?"

Session Chair: Laura Newbern, GCSU

Papers, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Jennie J. Joiner, University of Kansas: "Constructing Black Sons: O'Connor's 'The Artificial Nigger' and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning'"

Roseanne Vaile Camacho, Eastern Kentucky University: "Black and White Bodies in the Box: Fearful Homecomings in O'Connor and Faulkner"

Session Chair: Jean Cash, James Madison University

Discussion, Museum Education Room

Remarks by Craig Amason on projects for development of Andalusia

Papers, Museum Education Room

Denise Fidia, University of Ottawa: "The 'Darkening Path' of Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation'"

Carole K. Harris, New York City College of Technology: "Categorical Thinkers and Their Exceptional Cases: Clichés and Social Power in 'Good Country People,' 'The Displaced Person,' and 'Revelation'"

Session Chair: Ashleigh Eisinger, GCSU

Papers, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Wendy Piper, Dartmouth University: "Original Sin and the Origin of Art: Mystery and Meaning in O'Connor and Faulkner"

W. A. Sessions, Georgia State University: "Faulkner's Bear and O'Connor's Sunset: Access to God"

Session Chair: Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University

Readings and Awards, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Award Ceremony for and Readings by GCSU Creative Writing Students

Reading by Sean Hill, Judge

Introductions by Allen Gee, GCSU

Papers, Museum Education Room

Susan Presley, GCSU: "Flannery O'Connor's Boys 'Going Bad'"

Linda Rohrer Paige, Georgia Southern University: "White-Trash, Mules, Rats, and Bugs: The Terrors of 'Not Counting' in the Stories of O'Connor and Faulkner"

Robert Donahoo, Sam Houston State University: "Raising Hell ... and Loving It: Juvenile Delinquents and the 1950s"

Session Chair: John J. Han, Missouri Baptist University

Evening Session, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Reading by Allan Gurganus

Keynote Lecture by Anne Goodwyn Jones: "The Burden of Southern History?:  Flannery, Faulkner, and the Civil War"

Introductions by Alice Friman, GCSU

Papers, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Andy Oler, Indiana University: "Reasonable Instability: Masculinity, Rationalism, and Shiftlessness in 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own' and 'Good Country People'"

Scott Daniel, GCSU: "Flannery O'Connor’s Cosmological Re-invention of the Feminine Divine in 'The Comforts of Home'"

Teresa Caruso, Pennsylvania State University-Erie: "A View of Themselves: Perception and Identity of Flannery O'Connor's Females"

Session Chair:  Charlotte Thomas, Mercer University

Papers, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Sherri Allred, Clemson University: "The Empty Souls of Men in the Stories of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner"

Doug Davis, Gordon College: "Flannery, Faulkner and Ford (Cars): Human and Posthuman Conditions in the Southern Renaissance and Beyond"

William Monroe, University of Houston: "'Dappled Things' in Plato's Cave"

Session Chair:  Scott Daniel, GCSU

Papers, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

John Sykes, Wingate University: "How the Symbol Means: Deferral vs. Confrontation in The Sound and the Fury and 'The Artificial Nigger'"

Ralph C. Wood, Baylor University: "Why 'The Dixie Limited' is Indeed Limited: Faulkner and O'Connor on Moral Transformation"

Henry T. Edmondson, III, GCSU: "Stories About Nothing: A Comparison of O'Connor's and Faulkner's Literary Use of the Modern Doctrine of Nihilism"

Session Chair: Victoria Kennefick, University College, Cork (Ireland)

Paper and Film, Museum Education Room

Randall Wilhelm, University of Tennessee: "Drawn to Fiction: The Cartoons of William Faulkner"

Margaret Whitt, University of Denver: Introduction to film screening of Barn Burning (free and open to the public)

Session Chair: Paige Huskey, Wright State University

Reading by Mary Hood, Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Introduction by Martin Lammon, GCSU

Film, Museum Education Room

Film Screening of The Comforts of Home (free and open to the public)

Introduction by Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University