American Literature Association
Boston, MA
May 26-29, 2011
This panel will consider the roles men play in Welty's work. Welty's men are robber bridegrooms,
protective fathers, glamorous scoundrels, vaunting heroes, adored rapists, overseers, optimists.
What can we say Welty does with male gender identities? How does she construct, revise, parody,
adore, essentialize, or critique the performance of masculinity? Wht do
Eudora Welty in New Orleans
New Orleans, LA, April 8-11, 2010
Chair: Harriet Pollack, Bucknell University
1. "Getting a Sense of the New Orleans Welty
Knew," Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
2. "Lost in the Streets: Welty's New Orleans," Rebecca Mark, Tulane University
3. "Dangerous Carnivals in Eudora...