Dr. David Sterling Brown will join us on February 20, 2025 to present his talk “‘Hear Me, See Me’: Sex, Violence, Silence and Othello.” The event will be in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library (room 404), and will be free and open to the public. Dr. […]
Categories: Dean Family Speaker Series, Department Events
Elizabeth Hanks will visit campus on September 26 from 3 to 4 PM to give a presentation in Greene Hall room 239. This presentation introduces the design, sampling, and data collection of a new corpus of spoken American English: the Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken […]
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Thursday, November 2, 5pm, The Autumn Room, Reyholda Hall. Sponsored by the William R Kenan, Jr Professorship in the Humanities
Categories: Department Events
Categories: Dean Family Speaker Series, Department Events
ZSR auditorium (404) October 19th 5 pm FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Categories: Department Events
The Dean Family Speaker Series has invited American literature scholars Christopher Freeburg and Michael D. Snediker to visit Wake Forest University on October 18 & 19, 2023. On October 18, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. in the ZSR Library Auditorium (ZSR 404), Freeburg and Snediker will […]
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On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at 6 pm in Scales 102, the Department of English will host a film screening and discussion in celebration of Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English Eric G. Wilson’s study of John Boorman’s Point Blank for the British Film […]
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Cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten will be a featured guest of The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series and the Wake Forest University Interdisciplinary Arts Center this fall for two special events: a Poets’ Theatre presentation on Wednesday, September 13, and a night of […]
Categories: Department Events, Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series
On Wednesday, April 19, members of the English department gathered in the Magnolia Room for our annual awards reception to honor the outstanding work of our majors, minors, and graduate students. The award recipients are listed below. The Robert N. Shorter Medieval Prize: Ashley Simon […]
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Associate Professor of English Jennifer Greiman will present a talk on her new book titled Melville’s Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form on Tuesday, April 4, at 5:00 pm in the ZSR Auditorium (room 404). You can access a description, reviews, excerpts, and purchasing options […]
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