Better known as a fiction writer of international renown, Eudora Welty was also a talented photographer of Mississippi in the 1930s and 40s. What did Welty capture with her camera? And why? How do her photographs relate to her fiction, if at all? And what constitutes the value of her photographs today? These are some of the questions this slide presentation explores.
Speakers Expertise:
Dr. Annette Trefzer teaches American literature and literary theory at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of
Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction (UP of Alabama, 2007) and the co-editor with Ann J. Abadie of several volumes of critical essays on William Faulkner. She is the co-editor with Kathryn McKee of a special issue of American Literature: “Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies” (Dec. 2006). She is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Faculty Working Group on the Global South dedicated to new research in Global South studies. As Graduate Director of the Department of English, she teaches “Introduction to Graduate Studies,” a course that focuses on the history of the profession, its theoretical and institutional contours, and various critical and theoretical approaches. She also teaches courses in Literary Theory, American and Native American literature, and Southern literature.
