Prof. Herman Rapaport’s new book, Derrida on Exile and the Nation: Reading Fantom of the Other will be available from Bloomsbury Press on December 10, 2020. More about the text can be found on Bloomsbury’s website. From the publisher: Providing crucial scholarship on Derrida’s first series of lectures from the Nationality and… Continue Reading: A new monograph by Prof. Herman Rapaport: Derrida on Exile and the Nation
Literature professor Jefferson Holdridge has published a new collection of poetry, The Wells of Venice (Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, November 2020). It is his fourth published volume of poetry, following Eruptions (2013) and Devil’s Den and Other Poems (2015), and The Sound Thereof (2017). More information about the book and how… Continue Reading: Prof. Jefferson Holdridge publishes new collection of poems about Venice
Hometown: Chandler, Arizona Majors: English and French Highlights of your time at Wake: Every second of it, from spontaneous road trips to Florida to working at the student-run coffee shop on campus to becoming ESA president to carrying around three Norton anthologies at once because I thought it would be… Continue Reading: Meet English Major Heather McCauley ’21
A distinguished scholar and public intellectual, Corey D. B. Walker is the Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and is jointly appointed in the department of English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. He returns to Winston-Salem where he previously served as Dean of the College and John W. and Anna… Continue Reading: Meet Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies
Literature professor Lucy Alford will give a virtual presentation on her 2020 book, Forms of Poetic Attention, for the Stanford Humanities Center on Friday, November 20, at 5 p.m. (2 p.m. PST). Lorenzo Bartolucci (Stanford, Comparative Literature) will provide a brief response, followed by questions and an open discussion of the… Continue Reading: Prof. Lucy Alford to present on her new book for Stanford Humanities Center workshop
Alisa is joining the Writing Program at Wake as an Assistant Professor after recently completing her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Kansas. She’s excited to bring her interests in rhetorical genre studies and public writing to the first-year writing seminars and the interdisciplinary writing minor courses… Continue Reading: Meet Alisa Russell, Assistant Professor in the Writing Program
