Poet, writer, and critic John Yau will visit the Wake Forest University campus April 5-7 to give a poetry reading and participate in a panel discussion of poetics in the art and work of Liu Xia, whose exhibition METAPHORMS is currently […]
Categories: Department Events, Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series
The Wake Forest University Departments of English and Philosophy present “The Heimat Variations,” a lecture by Reynolds Professor of English Herman Rapaport on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 5 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium (Tribble A110). Rapaport’s talk will address his last book, Derrida on […]
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The English Student Association and Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, invite majors and non-majors to join them for a Pre-Law panel with two distinguished Wake Forest English alumni, Aja Brooks and Will Perry, on Monday, September 13, at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Wake […]
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The English Student Association and Sigma Tau Delta invited English alumna Sarah Pirovitz Humphreville ’10 to speak with majors and minors about the world of professional editing on April 13. Humphreville is the trade and academic editor for public health, epidemiology, and science & tech […]
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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 […]
Categories: Department Events, FC2
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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