4/18/02
Janet L. McCoy, 334/844-9999
EUDORA WELTY SCHOLAR TO SPEAK AT AUBURN
AUBURN -- Suzanne Marrs, a professor of English at Millsaps (Miss.) College will talk about the life and work of the late Eudora Welty during a presentation at Auburn University on Monday, April 22.
Marrs will speak at 4 p.m. at Pebble Hill.
The program is co-sponsored by the AU Special Lectures Series and the AU Department of History.
Marrs, who holds the Stewart Family Chair in Language and Literature at Millsaps, is the author of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Author Crusade?
She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests center on the South.
Marrs has also published The Welty Collection and several articles on Welty's fiction. In 1985-86, Marrs was the Welty Scholar-in-Residence at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
She has lectured on Welty's fiction in Russia and France, and was a consultant for the 1987 BBC documentary on Welty.
Marrs is a co-editor of and contributor to the volume of essays titled, Did the Writer Crusade? Welty and the Political, published by the LSU Press
She received the Phoenix Award for Outstanding Achievement in Eudora Welty Scholarship in 1998 and teaches courses in composition, 19th and 20th-century American literature, and 20th-century Southern literature.
A reception will follow the program.
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CONTACT: Jay Lamar or Allen Cronenberg, 334/844-4946.