Suzanne Marrs, project director, is a nationally recognized authority on Welty's life and fiction. Suzanne Marrs is the author The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archvies and History, One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, and Eudora Welty, A Biography. She is also a co-editor of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?. (Click here for Marrs's website)

Peggy W. Prenshaw, a former member of the National Council on the Humanities, is the editor of Conversations with Eudora Welty, More Conversations with Eudora Welty, and Eudora Welty: Critical Essays. She has also written extensively about Welty's fiction. Dr. Prenshaw is a professor at Millsaps College.

Minrose Gwin is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina and the author of The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading and of Black and White Women in the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature. (Click here for Gwin's website)

Alferdteen Harrison is the director of the Margaret Walker Alexander Research Center at Jackson State Univeristy. (Click here for Harrison's website)

Michael Kreyling has written three books about Eudora Welty: Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order, Author and Agent, and Understanding Eudora Welty. (Click here for Kreyling's website)

Rebecca Mark of Tulane University is the author of The Dragon's Blood, Feminist Intertextuality in the Golden Apples. (Click here for Mark's website)

Pearl McHaney of Georgia State University has published collections of book reviews Welty wrote and received; she is the editor of the Eudora Welty Newsletter. (Click here for McHaney's website)

Leslie McLemore is a professor of political science at Jackson State University, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, and a founding director of the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy.

Noel Polk has written widely about Welty's fiction and is the author of Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work. He is the editor of the Mississippi Quarterly and the standard editions of Faulkner's work. (Click here for Polk's website)

Harriet Pollack is a co-editor of Welty and Politics, Did the Writer Crusade? and a co-editior of the forthcoming Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. (Click here for Pollack's website)

Charles Sallis, professor emeritus at Millsaps College, is a distinguished historian, whose book Mississippi: Conflict and Change won the 1975 Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Non-fiction.

Marlys Vaughan, past chair of the Millsaps Education Department, co-founder of the Millsaps Principals' Institute, and supervisor of Millsaps student teachers, will oversee the pedagogical focus of the workshops.

Alix Davis Williams and Taylor Kitchings, two master teachers from Mississippi, will also serve as faculty for the workshops, suggesting ways that Welty's fiction can best be incorporated into high school syllabi and suggesting strategies for teaching that fiction.