New Work on Eudora Welty
Chair: Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston
1. “‘You Can’t Win’: Welty, Faulkner, and The Moral Tightrope of Dark Humor,” Adrienne Akins Warfield, Mars Hill University
2. “Convergence and Confluence: Postwar Southern Identity in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter,” Sarah Harsh, Emory University
3. “Eudora Welty’s ‘The Penalties of Writing Delta Wedding,’” Sophia Kane Leonard, Emory University
4. “Eudora Welty’s Ecological Vision,” Annette Trefzer, University of Mississippi

Murders and Murderers: Eudora Welty’s Take on Detective Fiction
Chair: Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston
1. “Rediscovering the Mystery: Eudora Welty and the Transformation of a Genre,” Suzanne Marrs, Millsaps College
2. “Welty in the First Degree: Eudora Welty’s Use of Crime Fiction and the Killing of ‘Miss Welty,’” Jacob Agner, University of Mississippi
3. “Attacks of the Ponder Heart: Killing Bonnie Dee Softly,” James Andrew Crank, University of Alabama
4. “Evolving Secrets: Eudora Welty’s Career in Mystery Fiction,” Harriet Pollack, College of Charleston

Roundtable: Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
Moderator: Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston
1. “Teaching ‘A Curtain’ in the Thick of Things: Welty and Race in Diverse Classrooms,” Christin Marie Taylor, Shenandoah University
2. “Picturing Difference and Disability in Our Classrooms: Teaching Welty’s Photographs,” Keri Watson, University of Central Florida School of Visual Arts and Design
3. “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Gary Richards, University of Mary Washington
4. “Welty’s Place in the Undergraduate Theory Classroom,” Annette Trefzer, University of Mississippi
5. “Teaching the Art of Welty’s Letters,” Julia Eichelberger, College of Charleston