Associate Professor Joanna Ruocco’s newest book is a Victorian historical romance, The Duke Undone, penned under the name Joanna Lowell and published by Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. About the novel Kirkus writes, “Lowell’s prose is vivid and evocative, and issues such as class inequity, women’s rights,… Continue Reading: The Duke Undone, a new novel by Prof. Joanna Ruocco
Hometown: Garden City, New York Major/Minors: Studio Art major; Theatre, History, & Creative Writing minors WFU Highlights: During the spring semester of my sophomore year, I took CRW 384: Playwriting; we were only on-campus through March 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the time that I spent with… Continue Reading: Meet Creative Writing Minor Kaylah Bozkurtian ’22
Hometown: Hobbs, New Mexico Majors and Graduation Year: English and Spanish, 2005 Current Employment: Director, Center for Self-Help and Dispute Resolution, Second Judicial District Court, Albuquerque, NM What role has the English major played in your career path? When I think of the ways my English major has been useful… Continue Reading: Meet English Alum Aja Brooks ’05
Guy Witzel is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program. As a scholar, he concerns himself with the conversations within and between the environmental humanities and writing studies. He finds the renewed relevance of ecocomposition, with its commitments to place-based learning and community engagement, as well as the emergence… Continue Reading: Meet Guy Witzel, Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing
Hometown: Hendersonville, North Carolina Major/Minors: English & German major, Creative Writing minor Highlights of my time at Wake: Being surrounded by a community of other language nerds, able to become the whole person I never was in high school. Going to basketball games, being named a Carswell-Mullen Scholar, building the… Continue Reading: Meet English Major Declan Sander ’23
Hometown: Roanoke, Virginia Graduation Year: MA in English, 1983 Current Employment: Clergy (retired) / Poet What role has the English major played in your career path?: I entered the MA program at Wake with the intention of a teaching career, but life, and God, intervened. I eventually entered seminary and… Continue Reading: Meet English Alum Michael Lyle, MA ’83
