Dear Scholars of Flannery O'Connor--

The Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities cordially invites you to our Centennial Celebrations in Milledgeville. We will be throwing a giant party for Flannery, whose 100th birthday is March 25, 2025! We have an exciting week planned, including the unveiling of newly discovered visual art by O'Connor!

There will be an Art Opening, an artist talk by Bob Donahoo, birthday cake, free tours of Andalusia. And, in recognition of all the musicians who have been inspired by O'Connor's work, there will be a music festival at Andalusia Farm featuring Colin Cutler, Sally Jaye, and Sean Mullins.

Even more exciting, we have travel awards!! In order to make it possible for scholars to travel to the event, we are pleased to offer a limited number of travel awards, thanks to the generosity of the Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. We offer awards up to $2000 towards travel and lodging to attend the events. To apply, please use the link below to access the application. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2025. Recipients will be announced by March 1. Please pass this along to those scholars you know who could benefit from such an award.

For more details on the birthday events, see the Flannery at 100 website in the link below, or check out the attached mailer.

We are excited to celebrate with you, and hope to see many of you soon!

Dr. Katie Simon

Interim Executive Director of the Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities

Applications are due by February 15 for scholars who wish to attend the Flannery at 100 celebrations but lack institutional funding to do so. Many thanks to the Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust for funding these awards! Apply via Smartsheet for up to $2,000 to support travel and lodging.

To join us for the online book club at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom, please register online.

Mark your calendar for the kickoff of our new lecture series featuring scholars of the Southern Gothic! These lectures will take place at the Georgia College Library's Pat Peterson Museum Education Room and be free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided thanks to the Foundations of Excellence Award.

Sara L. Crosby hails from an island off the coast of Louisiana, and she is currently Professor of English at the Ohio State University at Marion where she teaches classes on everything from early American literature to pop culture to environmental writing. She has authored two monographs about poisonous women in nineteenth-century American literature and a number of essays, including “Gothic in an Age of Environmental Crisis” (for the third volume of Cambridge’s History of the Gothic) and “American Soil, Louisiana Dirt: The Metaphor Enabling the Sacrifice Zone” and “Beyond Ecophilia: Edgar Allan Poe and the American Tradition of Ecohorror” (for ISLE). Her current book project investigates why the U. S. is allowing South Louisiana to wash away—specifically, how the interplay between extractive interests (like the petroleum industry) and American popular culture’s representation of South Louisiana as a place of ecohorror has and continues to enable this unnatural disaster.

The lecture will take place in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room of the GCSU Library on Tuesday, February 4 at 5pm.

Teresa A. Goddu is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (Columbia University Press) and Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her work has appeared in American Literary History, Book History, MELUS, African American Review, Common-Place, South Atlantic Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction, and other venues. She is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Senior Specialist Fulbright award. Her current research focuses on the environmental humanities, specifically contemporary climate fiction.

The lecture will take place in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room of the GCSU Library on Tuesday, February 25 at 5pm.

Check out our YouTube channel for recordings of our virtual events.

Check the Flannery at 100 website hub for up to date event information across the entire campus! Click the Flannery at 100 logo to see the year's events.

Tuesday, March 25: Birthday celebrations at Andalusia farm, including free tours, birthday cake, and special guests

Wednesday, March 26: Gallery exhibition of never-before-seen collection of artwork by Flannery O'Connor and guest speaker Bob Donahoo at 4:00 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom

Thursday, March 27: Sean Mullins concert with special guest Sally Jaye at Andalusia Farm

Friday, March 28: Songwriters showcase at Blackbird Coffee and Wildcat screening featuring a panel discussion with two producers of the film at Russell Auditorium

Saturday, March 29: Birthday celebrations at Andalusia farm and a free music festival featuring Colin Cutler and the Hot Pepper Jam

Check the Flannery at 100 website for more information!

Sign up for this unique experience to take classes with singer-songwriter Sally Jaye as part of the Flannery at 100 week of events! Register online.

Copies can be purchased by mailing a check or money order for $15 made out to "Flannery O'Connor Review" to:

Bruce Gentry, Editor

Flannery O'Connor Review

English Dept., Campus Box 44

Georgia College

410 W. Greene St.

Milledgeville, GA 31061