Nov 2020 Book Program

The Speaker, the Author, and the Book 

In this Book Program, Professor Pearl McHaney is presenting a Mini Seminar on Georgia author Delia Owens, featuring the phenomenal Southern novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. 

Dr. Pearl McHaney is newly retired this past May. She has been a leading scholar at Georgia State University for many years -- as a Ph.D. recipient, an associate dean, and an admired leader of the faculty, including her service as the Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature.  In 2017, she received a Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities, recognizing her outstanding work in that field. Dr. McHaney has authored or edited seven books and is a world-renowned scholar of the author Eudora Welty.  She approaches contemporary American prose and poetry from an American Studies point of view.  The cultural contexts revealed through art, music, history, and biography inform her teaching. This is Pearl McHaney's…