Influence of Thomistic Thinking on Flannery O'Connor's Work and Life

This talk was given at Texas A&M University on November 9, 2020.

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About the speaker: Ralph C. Wood has served as University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor since 1998. He holds the B.A. and M.A. from East Texas State College (now Texas A&M University-Commerce) as well as the A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1971-1997 he taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was the John Allen Easley Professor of Religion from 1990. At Baylor, he has a graduate appointment in Religion, though he teaches entirely in the Great Texts program. He serves as an editorial board member for both the Flannery O’Connor Review and Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review. He has also taught at Providence College in Rhode Island, at Samford University in Birmingham, and at Regent College in Vancouver.