Eudora Welty Society

The Eudora Welty Society's primary purpose is to promote and assist Eudora Welty studies through the organization of conferences and special meetings, and to foster scholarship and academic community among Welty scholars. All interested readers of Pulitzer Prize-winning Eudora Welty are encouraged to join. Be sure to visit all our pages, where we offer news and information of interest to Welty scholars.

What's New?

Eudora Welty Centennial Conference and Celebration,
April 16-19, 2009

Our Centennial Conference plans are very exciting. A tentative program draft will provide some sense of all that is being planned. Please understand that some changes are to be expected before the program is finalized. Looking forward to seeing you at the conference,

Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University, Centennial Conference Director

Call for papers:

The Eudora Welty Society invites proposals for its session at the South Central Modern Language Association convention, to be held in Baton Rouge, October 29-31. Papers on any topic are welcome, but especially so are those that engage Welty's life, career, or work in reference to the conference theme, "Displacements/Continuities." Email inquiries or 500-word abstracts to kordonowy@virginia.edu. The deadline has been extended to 25 March 2009.

Eudora Welty in New York Photograph Exhibition
Museum of the City of New York
Now through February 16 and then at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson

Eudora Welty in New York: Photographs of the Early 1930s features 50 black-and-white photographs from Mississippi that constitute a near complete re-creation of her first solo exhibition held in 1936 at the Photographic Galleries of Lugene Opticians in New York City. The re-creation is supplemented with eleven of Welty’s photographs taken in New York City. Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, curated the exhibit.

http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/

Eudora Welty House Opened April 29-30, 2006

Welty lived at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson for more than seventy-six years. Also a National Historic Landmark, the Welty House is one of the nation's most complete literary house museums, containing her library as well as family furnishings and art work.

The house will be shown by reservation only Wednesdays through Fridays at 9 and 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m.

Eudora Welty House Website

Welty Prints, Photographs Available for Purchase from MDAH

A new print depicting writer Eudora Welty is available for purchase. The woodcut, the first in a series of five, is by longtime Welty friend and collaborator Barry Moser, a National Book Award-winning illustrator. Moser is donating the prints to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to raise money to support the Eudora Welty House, which opened in 2005.

For more information, visit the Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Eudora Welty House News page, or visit the MDAH homepage here.

President: Pearl McHaney, engpam@langate.gsu.edu Georgia State University	Website Editor: Carol Ann Johnston, johnston@dickinson.edu Dickinson College
Vice President: Mae Miller Claxton, mclaxton@wcu.edu Western Carolina University	Treasurer: Michael Kreyling, michael.p.kreyling@vanderbilt.edu Vanderbilt University

The Eudora Welty Society is distinct from the Eudora Welty Review. Please contact the editor with inquiries about the Review: Pearl McHaney, Department of English, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303-2900; or visit the EWReview website.