Gary Richards, Professor of English, led a discussion of six of Kate Chopin’s representative short stories at the sold-out special event “Books and Beignets with Gary Richards” at the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 25.
Richards has presented in this series fifteen times since 2007, lecturing on authors that include Ellen Gilchrist, John Kennedy Toole, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Harper Lee, James Baldwin, and, in multiple sessions, Tennessee Williams.
Richards teaches such English courses as Southern Short Stories (Summer 2023), Writing About the South (Fall 2023), and Global Issues in Literature (Fall 2023) and also offers WGST courses as Perspectives in Sexuality (Summer 2023).