Flannery O'Connor

   
We believe that every Honors student should have at least a passing familiarity with Georgia College's most famous graduate to date, the writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-64).

Each year we organize a trip to O'Connor's family home, Andalusia, where she completed all of her major work during the last 13 years of her life. At Andalusia, we learn about O'Connor's life and writing, discuss one of her short stories with a leading O'Connor scholar and, weather permitting, explore the nature trails.          

For those who wish to study O'Connor further, there are upper-level O'Connor classes in the English Department, the Flannery O'Connor Collection in the Library, the Flannery O'Connor Room in the Museum, and the occasional Flannery O'Connor Honors Colloquium.

E-mail: honors@gcsu.edu

CONNECTING WHAT MATTERS

We are offering an Honors Colloquium entitled "O'Connor's World" in spring 2010. The course will be facilitated by Drs. Bruce Gentry and Melanie DeVore, and will involve many Georgia College faculty and visiting scholars. The multidisciplinary colloquium will examine, among other things, some of O'Connor's short stories, her writing in connection with race and religion, her historical context, her reputation overseas, and the representation of O'Connor and her work in other art forms.