Announcements

The 2008 Flannery O'Connor Conference

The Stories of Flannery and Faulkner

April 2-5, 2008

This year's conference will feature keynote speakers Jay Watson and Anne Goodwin Jones, as well as readings by Martin Lammon, Sandra Worsham, Alice Friman, GCSU Creative Writing students, Sean Hill, Allan Gurganus, and Mary Hood. Andalusia and the Old Governor's Mansion will be open for tours. The Conference is sponsored by The Flannery O'Connor Review, the GCSU Department of English, Speech and Journalism, the Creative Writing Program at GCSU, Arts Unlimited, the Georgia Humanities Council, and the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc.

For more information about the Conference, please visit www.gcsu.edu/FlanneryandFaulkner or contact Bruce Gentry, Editor, The Flannery O'Connor Review, at bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu or (478) 445-6928.

2007 NEH Summer Institute at GCSU

Georgia College & State University is hosting "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor," an NEH Summer Institute for college and university professors, throughout July 2007. The O'Connor Institute will feature lectures and discussions with guest faculty Richard Giannone, Sarah Gordon, Michael Kreyling, Farrell O'Gorman, Virginia Wray, and Patricia Yaeger. Twenty-five professors from a variety of disciplines will be selected to study O'Connor's works in Milledgeville at GCSU, O'Connor's alma mater, the home of the major collection of O'Connor's papers. The major goal of the Institute is to prepare college and university professors to improve their teaching of O'Connor at the undergraduate level. Participants will receive a stipend of $3,000 from the NEH to help with the cost of food and lodging during the Institute.

At the official website for the Institute, one can view full information about the Institute as well as information from NEH about how to apply. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2007. Questions may be directed to either of the co-directors for the O'Connor Institute: Marshall Bruce Gentry (bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu) or John D. Cox (john.cox@gcsu.edu).

David M. Sherman Donation

Mr. David M. Sherman has donated the majority of his Statehouse and Georgia-related research notes. The materials have been processed, and the finding aid may be found: David M. Sherman Papers.

Welcome to Our New Staff Member

Christopher Ellis joined the Special Collections staff as Archival Associate on May 15. Ellis holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia. He has experience working in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and served as the Assistant Coordinator of the Georgiana Collection.

Flannery O'Connor Room Now Open

The Flannery O'Connor room reopened October 6, 2005 in the newly renovated museum, located on the corner of Montgomery and Clarke Streets. It will feature rotating exhibits related to O’Connor. Hours for the museum are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. ­ 4 p.m. For more information regarding upcoming exhibits, please call (478) 445-4391 or e-mail museum@gcsu.edu.