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Awards and Fellowships
Senior Fellowship
Sonja Schillings, 2018
Junior Fellowship
Cristina Sendra Ramos, 2018
Senior Fellowship Application
Junior Fellowship Application
Sarah Gordon Award
Huntley Hughes, 2019
Inside Volume 18 (August 2020)
Mark A. Noon
“Pigs in Space: Notes on Flannery O’Connor’s Pig Astronaut in ‘Revelation’”
Karl E. Martin
“Shutting Down the Open Road: Flannery O’Connor’s Influence on Bruce Springsteen’s Songwriting”
Huntley Hughes
“Fighting the World’s Overflow: Labor, Community, and Precarity in ‘The Displaced Person’”
Monica Carol Miller
“Converging: Reading Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker in the Multimodal Classroom”
Grace Kisa
Artwork
Rachel Arteaga
“Love, Joy, Sorrow: The Summa Theologica and the Devotional Writing of Flannery O’Connor”
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Special Feature:
“Flannery O’Connor and Disability Studies”
Bruce Henderson, Guest Editor
Bruce Henderson
Introduction
Connie Chen
“The Deaths of Bishop Rayber: Drowning Normalcy in The Violent Bear It Away”
Sonya Freeman Loftis
“The Word and the Flesh: Reading (and Misreading) Disability in O’Connor”
Bruce Henderson
“Flannery O’Connor and the Romance of Disability: The Crip/Queer Fictions of Joseph Torchia
and Brad Watson”
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Charles Puckett
“The Story Behind the Story: Vera ‘Pete’ Puckett”
Marshall Bruce Gentry
“Remembering Josephine Keese King”
Josephine Keese King
Cartoon
Betty Littleton
“Remembering Cecil Dawkins, 1927-2019”
Jean W. Cash
Review of Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends
William A. Richards
Review of Bishop Robert Barron’s Fulton J. Sheen: The Communicator & Flannery O’Connor: The Storyteller in Catholicism: The Pivotal Players, Lorraine V. Murray’s portion of the Leader Guide to Flannery O’Connor: The Storyteller, and Flannery O’Connor’s Flannery O’Connor Collection
Rita Mae Reese
Review of E. Jane Doering and Ruthann Knechel Johansen’s When Fiction & Philosophy Meet: A Conversation with Flannery O’Connor & Simone Weil
Alison Staudinger
Review of Jerome C. Foss’s Flannery O’Connor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness
Roger Stanley
Review of Thomism, Law, and Grace in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor, a Special Issue of Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture
Carole K. Harris
Review of William W. French’s Maryat Lee’s EcoTheater: A Theater for the Twenty-First Century
Beauty Bragg
Review of Nagueyalti Warren’s Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit
Steven Trout
Review of David A. Davis’s World War I and Southern Modernism
Robert Donahoo
Review of Anders Walker’s The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
Margaret Earley Whitt
Just a Suggestion for Mr. Guizac
Sarah Gordon
Poem
A Collection of Interviews
Elizabeth Coffman and Marshall Bruce Gentry
Composing Flannery: An Interview with Elizabeth Coffman
Frances Florencourt and Robert Donahoo
Blown Sideways Through Life: An Interview with Frances Florencourt
Meghan Anderson and Catherine Bowlin
Curating Andalusia: An Interview with Meghan Anderson
Christine Flanagan and Jessica McQuain
No Light Task to Advise a Genius: The Mentorship of Caroline Gordon and Flannery O’Connor
Doreen Fowler
Racial Scapegoating and White Redemption: Reconsidering Race in Flannery O’Connor
Henry T. Edmondson III
How Flannery O’Connor Read Franz Kafka: Considerations of Style and Grace
Special Feature:
Flannery O’Connor and Popular Music
Irwin H. Streight, Guest Editor
Irwin H. Streight
Introduction
Monica Carol Miller
Only Southernness: Flannery O’Connor and R.E.M.
Damian Ference
Springsteen’s Catechist: Flannery O’Connor’s Influence on Bruce Springsteen
Irwin H. Streight
Nick Cave, Flannery O’Connor, and the Embodied Sacred
Lucas F. W. Wilson
Of Gossip and Gaze: The Shift from Symbolic to Social Exclusion “Seen” through a Post-Holocaust Aesthetic in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person”
Josephine Keese King
Circa: O’Connor’s Early Years
Sophia Stid
Review of The Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon
Sarah Gordon
Review of Robert C. Evans’s The Critical Reception of Flannery O’Connor, 1952-2017: “Searchers and Discoverers”
Thomas F. Haddox
Review of Farrell O’Gorman’s Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination
Marshall Bruce Gentry
Review of William Giraldi’s American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring
Kristy Maier
Review of Southern Writers on Writing
Lauren Pilcher
Review of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television
Farrell O’Gorman
Review of Jessica Hooten Wilson’s Reading Walker Percy’s Novels
Robert Cochran
Review of Julie Hedgepeth Williams’s Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes: A Plantation Newspaperman, a Printer’s Devil, an English Wit, and the Founding of Southern Literature
Past Conferences and NEH Institutes
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Editor
Marshall Bruce Gentry
Assistant Editors
Jordan Cofer
Katie Simon
Associate Director for Special Collections
Nancy Davis Bray
Circulation Assistants
Mary Alsobrooks
Auden Eagerton
Editorial Advisory Board
Derek Alderman
Frederick Asals
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
Jean W. Cash
Gary M. Ciuba
Robert Donahoo
Sarah Gordon
Thomas F. Haddox
Michael Kreyling
Carter W. Martin
Monica Carol Miller
Brian Abel Ragen
Sura P. Rath
Carol Loeb Shloss
Nagueyalti Warren
Louise Westling
Margaret Earley Whitt
Ralph C. Wood
Virginia Wray