Background
Westling, Louise Hutchings was born on February 13, 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Daughter of William Evelyn and Louise Dillon (Van Winkle) Hutchings.
(In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling exp...)
In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted to the violent, false world created by their men―a world in which women came to be shrouded as icons of purity in atonement for the sins of men. Exposing the actual conditions of women's lives, creating assertive protagonists who resist or revise conventional roles, and exploring rich matriarchal traditions and connections to symbolic landscapes Welty, McCullers, and O'Connor created a body of fiction that enriches and complements the patriarchal version of southern life presented in the works of William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and William Styron.
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Westling, Louise Hutchings was born on February 13, 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Daughter of William Evelyn and Louise Dillon (Van Winkle) Hutchings.
AB, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1964; Master of Arts, U. Iowa, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Oregon, 1974.
Instructor English, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1965-1967; research associate, N.W. Regional Ednl. Laboratory, Portland, Oregon, 1968-1971; graduate teaching fellow, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1971-1974; instructor English, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1974-1977; assistant professor Honors College, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1977-1981; instructor England Department, University Oregon, Eugene, 1981-1985; assistant professor, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1985-1988; associate professor, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1988-1994; professor, U. Oregon, Eugene, since 1994; head department English, U. Oregon, Eugene, since 1994.
(In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling exp...)
Member Modern Language Association, Society for the Study Southern Literature, Philological Association Pacific Coast (executive director 1985-1988).
Married GeorgeAttout Wickes, November 8, 1975.