Faculty + Staff

Mary McCay is the Director of the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing. 

Dr. McCay is also The Moon and Verna S. Landrieu Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities and Natural Sciences. 

She can be contacted by email at mccay@loyno.edu

Local writers and scholars who are interested in doing readings or teaching master classes on fiction and/or Walker Percy are welcome to contact Dr. McCay. 

Rhoda K. Faust is the Administrative Assistant for the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing. She works closely with the Director of the Center, Dr. Mary McCay.

Rhoda knew Walker Percy personally in several contexts and worked with him on a number of projects. Formerly, Rhoda owned and operated the Maple Street Book Shop (which her mother and aunt opened in 1964) for thirty-seven years. In 1993, she was a co-founder of the anti-racism group whose bumper stickers say “Eracism.”

Contact Us

Phone: (504) 864-7041
Fax: (504) 865-2294
E-mail: wpc@loyno.edu and rkfaust@loyno.edu
Office Location: 2nd Floor, Monroe Library