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 The
Mississippi Humanities Council has selected Dr. Suzanne Marrs, E.B.
Stewart Family Professor in Language and Literature at Millsaps,
for a 2002 Humanities Teacher Award. As part of its Arts and Humanities
Month celebration, the council bestows this award on distinguished
humanities professors at Mississippi's colleges and universities.
"Dr. Marrs
is widely regarded as a fine teacher and is an important contributor
to the life of Millsaps," said Dr. Richard Smith, Vice President
and Dean of the College. "She is also a nationally recognized
scholar on the work of Eudora Welty. We are very fortunate to count
a professor of her caliber among our faculty members."
At Millsaps,
Marrs teaches courses in composition, nineteenth- and twentieth-century
American literature and twentieth-century Southern literature. In
1985 and 1986, Marrs was the Welty Scholar in Residence at the Mississippi
Department of Archives and History (MDAH). She has lectured on Welty's
works in the U.S., Russia and France and served as a consultant
for a 1987 BBC documentary on Eudora Welty. She also received the
Phoenix Award for Outstanding Achievement in Eudora Welty Scholarship
in 1998.
"The Mississippi
Humanities Council greatly enriches life in Mississippi through
its support of a wide variety of cultural programs," said Marrs.
"It's a special honor to be recognized by this outstanding
organization."
Marrs is the
author of The Welty Collection, a guide to the Welty documents
and materials at the MDAH, and numerous articles on Welty's fiction.
Her most recent book, One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of
Eudora Welty, was published this fall. The new book centers
on Welty's creative process, exploring the way in which Welty adapted
the world around her for use in her fiction and how she dramatically
revised her stories. The book also details the biographical and
historical background of some of Welty's work.
As the award
recipient, Marrs will give a public lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 29,
at 4:30 p.m. in room 215 of the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex.
The lecture, titled "Beyond Mississippi: Other Places in Eudora
Welty's Photography and Fiction," will focus on the work Welty
did outside of Mississippi and will be immediately followed by a
reception. Copies of One Writer's Imagination will be available
for purchase and signing at the reception. For more information,
call (601) 974-1034.
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