Eudora Welty Society

The Eudora Welty Society holds its annual business meeting in May of each year at the American Literature Association conference, this year in Boston. Current officers are President Sarah Ford (Baylor University), Vice President Julia Eichelberger (College of Charleston), and Secretary-Treasurer Michael Kreyling (Vanderbilt University). The society regularly sponsors sessions showcasing Welty scholarship at the ALA, SSSL, SAMLA, and SCMLA meetings. The panels the Welty society sponsored at the 2015 ALA meeting follow below.

Society members receive information through the Eudora Welty listserv and are eligible for several prizes and awards. The society sponsors a Graduate Student Award for travel to the ALA conference to present a paper on Welty. The 2015 winner was Shinji Ohno from the University of Mississippi.

American Literature Association, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2015

Eudora Welty and Social Class [session one]

Chair: Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston

1. 1. “‘Out of a Fit of Pure-D Jealousy’: Re-Deployment of ‘Southern’ Class under the Cold War in The Ponder Heart,” Shinji Ohno, University of Mississippi

2. 2. “Welty’s Classism,” Jolene Hubbs, University of Alabama

3. 3. 3“‘Because we live here, don’t we, Miss Jenny?’: Geographic Uncertainty in Welty’s ‘At the Landing,’” David Russell, Lock Haven University

Eudora Welty and Social Class [session two]

Chair: Barbara Ladd, Emory University

1. 1. “The Issue of Class in Welty’s Autobiographical Girl Stories,” Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University

2. 2. “Transformative Performances: Eudora Welty’s Parade Photographs,” Annette Trefzer, University of Mississippi

3. 3. “Middle-Class Welty,” David McWhirter, Texas A&M University