From July 1 to 31, 2007, twenty-five college and university faculty will live in Milledgeville, Georgia in order to study the works of Flannery O'Connor at Georgia College & State University, O'Connor's alma mater. Through lectures, small group discussions, and individual meetings, participants will work closely with some of the leading figures in O'Connor studies. In addition, each participant will have the opportunity to study O'Connor's manuscripts, housed in GCSU's Special Collections.

Flannery O'Connor has achieved canonicity for many reasons: her sophisticated explorations of religion; her engagement with significant theologians and philosophers; her investigations of evil; her responses to the traditions of American literature and to the cultural forces of her time, esp. having to do with race issues and social activism; her ability to identify with outsiders, including children and the disabled and even those who perpetrate violence; her fascinating conflictedness over gender; and her skill as a satirist and stylist. "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor" will assist participants in examining O'Connor from all of these important angles.