Biography

Gary Richards is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication at the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961 as well as numerous essays on southern literature and culture including, "Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies” and “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom.”

Schedule

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
State Library, Fourth Floor
Autofiction: Life Meets Fiction
with Christee Gabour Atwood, Teresa Tuminello Brader, Jeffrey Dale Lofton, and moderator Gary Richards

2:30 pm to 3:15 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E
One Book, One Festival: Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

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