Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had his essay “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom,” published in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger and released from University Press of Mississippi. His essay in particular analyzes the Welty stories “The Wide Net” and “Why I Live at the P.O.”