Name: Faith, Race, and Disability Panel
Start: 2025-02-23T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Beach Institute African American Cultural Center

Please join us at the Beach Institute in Savannah for a panel discussion centered around faith, race, and disability in the works of Flannery O'Connor.
The panel will begin at 3pm and will be followed by a light reception.
This event is free of charge, open to all,
and ADA accessible.
To register, please click the ticket link on this event or go to flanneryoconnorhome.org/faith-race-and-disability-panel.
The Panelists:
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL teaches literature and creative writing at Fordham University. Her critical work includes Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor and Flannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith. She has also authored several volumes of poetry including Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor.
MARK BOSCO, S.J. writes about the intersection of religion and literature. Currently at Georgetown University, he has published extensively on Flannery O'Connor and other Catholic writers. He is also the co-writer and co-director of the documentary Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia.
PATRICIA WEST is the author of many articles about teaching, American literature, and Flannery O'Connor. Her book, Still Water Words: Poems and Stories from Ancestral Places, is inspired by her Gullah-Geechee heritage. Professor West retired from Savannah State University in 2022. Her current project explores the lives of the Black farm workers at Andalusia thought to have inspired the creation of O'Connor's African American characters.