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 […]
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“Books, Authors, and Readers in Eighteenth-Century England” is a student-curated collection that will be on exhibit in ZSR Special Collections & Archives (ZSR 625) from January 20 through April 1, 2020. The exhibit was designed by students in Dr. Jessica Richard’s fall 2019 Eighteenth-Century British […]
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Founded in 1974, FC2 (FC2.org) is an independent press dedicated to publishing artistically adventurous fiction. In 2017, the editorial operations of FC2 moved to Wake Forest, where student fellows and interns have the opportunity to participate in the publishing process. This […]
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Author Eula Biss will give a reading for the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at 6:30 pm in the ZSR Library Auditorium (404). The reading, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a brief reception […]
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On October 15, 2019, Wake Forest University students, faculty and staff are invited to meet L. Lamar Wilson, who joined the Wake Forest University Creative Writing faculty this year, as he shares his PBS film and discusses his poet-scholar worldview and his new work. Dr. […]
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Kenneth Price, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive and Hillegass University Professor of American Literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will give a talk about his work editing the Walt Whitman Archive, followed by a ZSR Special Collections pop-up exhibit on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, […]
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Visiting scholar Julie Park will give a talk on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4 p.m. in ZSR Special Collections & Archive (Room 625). Her talk, “The Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Book: Index, Table, Self” is about her research on eighteenth-century commonplace books, with a reception to […]
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Abbey Mei Otis, author of Alien Virus Love Disaster, will give a reading for the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 6 p.m. in the ZSR Library Auditorium (404). The reading, which is free and open to the public, will […]
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019 6 pm in Brendle Recital Hall, Scales Fine Art Center (Doors open at 5:30 pm.) The inaugural Edwin G. Wilson Distinguished Artist will be poet and prose artist Nathaniel Mackey, who will perform work from his forthcoming collection Double Trio with musical accompaniment from […]
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Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement, will give a lecture for the Dean Family Speaker Series on October 21, 2019, at 4:30 p.m. in the ZSR Library Auditorium. The talk, which will be followed by a brief reception and book signing, is […]
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