Congratulations to the recipients of the English Department’s 2020-2021 scholarships and awards! In the absence of our annual in-person awards reception, their professors have recorded brief videos about these students’ accomplishments. H. Broadus Jones Senior Award for Excellence in English Awarded to an outstanding senior major. Recipient: Natalie Bradford,… Continue Reading: Spring 2021 English Student Scholarships and Awards
The Winter 2021 issue of Three to Four Ounces, Wake Forest’s student literary magazine, is now available in digital form. The issue features work by Wake Forest students Kaylah Bozkurtian, Brianna Coppolino, Dianna LaTerra, Anna Lawrence, Marilla Morrison, Kathryn Paulsen, and contributing editors McKenzie Baker and Declan Sander. Click the… Continue Reading: Read the Winter 2021 issue of Three to Four Ounces
The 2021 seniors from Wake Forest’s Sigma Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, will be the third class to add beloved books to the organization’s permanent collection in Ammons Lounge in Tribble Hall. Each senior selected a book that they studied at Wake Forest that… Continue Reading: Class of 2021 contributes books to Sigma Tau Delta shelf in Ammons Lounge
Lucy Alford specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry and poetics, as well as transnational and trans-historical poetries in English, French, German, and Arabic. She holds a PhD in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Prior to joining the… Continue Reading: Meet Assistant Professor Lucy Alford
On April 29, Associate Professor Judith Madera will be the invited keynote speaker for the English Department and the Study of World Literature at Appalachian State University in honor of Senior Capstone Day. Her talk is titled “Why Place Stories Matter: Worldmaking and Home.” The presentation will speak to the relationship between… Continue Reading: Prof. Judith Madera to be keynote at ASU’s English Capstone Day 2021
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
