COD 2025 - D1188

Webinar - Echoes of the South: The Worlds of Eudora Welty and Kate Chopin

Literature lovers

1 sesiones, inicia: 15-Nov

Ficha del curso

Ciclo: 2025
Nivel: Programa Cultural
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 15 Noviembre 2025 10:00 am 11:30 am

Capacitador/es

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda holds an MA in Literature and Foreign Language Teaching from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has been working in the field of teacher education and Primary curriculum development for over 20 years. She has been sharing her experience as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer in Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia. She is a co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
Literature lovers
In this online reading breakfast session, we intend:
▪ To continue creating a reading community of lovers of literature.
▪ To continue developing reading strategies to tackle the ambiguous nature of literary texts.
▪ To learn about and explore the narratives of Eudora Welty and Kate Chopin.
In this session, we will explore the literary worlds of Eudora Welty and Kate Chopin, focusing on their portrayals of the American South. We will examine how each writer captures the complexities of gender, identity, and place, using regional detail not only as backdrop but as a force shaping character and conflict. In particular, we will consider how landscape, memory, and silence function in their narratives, and how each author navigates the tensions between tradition and transformation. Welty’s lyrical prose and psychological subtlety contrast with Chopin’s bold explorations of female autonomy and desire, yet both challenge social conventions and offer profound reflections on the inner lives of women. A selection of short stories (“Clytie” by E. Welty and “The Story of an Hour” by K. Chopin) will be provided in advance for prior reading.
Online Reading Breakfast session. Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss the texts and the topics introduced as well as analyse the different ways in which artists express their concerns.
Berkove, L. I. (1997). A Study of the Short Fiction of Kate Chopin. Twayne.
Chopin, K. (1894/1895). first published as "The Dream of an Hour" in Vogue on December 6, 1894, and later as “The Story of an Hour" in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895.
Marrs, S. (ed.). (2002). One Writer’s Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty. University Press of Mississippi.
McHaney, P. A. (2009). Eudora Welty as Photographer. University Press of Mississippi.
Prenshaw, P. W. (1980). Eudora Welty: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne.
Welty, E. (1980). Clytie. In The collected stories of Eudora Welty (pp. 81-90). Harcourt, Inc.
Westling, L. (1985). Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O’Connor. UGA Press.
Showalter, E. (2009). A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. Knopf.
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