Eudora Welty Sociey

Eudora Welty Society Officers: Julia Eichelberger, President; Harriet Pollack, Vice President; Adrienne Akins Warfield, Treasurer; Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Website Editor (eudoraweltysociety.org).

The Eudora Welty Society held its 2017 annual business meeting at the American Literature Association in Boston. The Society also organized two panels.

New Welty Work in Progress: Articles and Dissertations on Eudora Welty

Chair: Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston

1. 1. "Hell Hath No Wrath: Angry Women in Eudora Welty's Fiction," Rebecca Mark, Tulane University

2. 2. "The Dance of the Seven Veils: Captivity Narratives and Narrative Dissent in Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom," Rebecca L. Harrison, University of West Georgia

3. 3. "A Curtain of Blue: The Blues Aesthetic in Eudora Welty's A Curtain of Green," Alicia Marie Venchuk, University of Mississippi

4. 4. "Subversive Voices and Limits of Creativity: History, Gender, and Narrative Structures in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying," Michaela Plicková, Fulbright-Masaryk Scholar, Boston University & Charles University, Prague

5. 5. "Smoking Guns: Welty, Whiteness, and the Chiaroscuro of Racism in 1960s Country Noir," Jacob Agner, University of Mississippi

New Welty Work in Progress: Planned Books on Eudora Welty

Chair: Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University

1. 1. "A Visual Mind: Welty's Photography," Annette Trefzer, University of Mississippi

2. 2. "'The Still-Existing Parts of a Life': The Friendship of Eudora Welty and Mary Louise Aswell," Elizabeth Crews, Blue Mountain College

3. 3. "Reading the Past, Imagining the Future: Welty, Segregation, and Education," Adrienne Akins Warfield, Mars Hill University

4. 4. "Eudora Welty: Southern Modernism, Southern Modernity," David McWhirter, Texas A&M University