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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The Spring 2019 edition of the newsletter is now online! You can view the PDF here or visit the Newsletters section of this website to view it along with past newsletters. This edition summarizes department news and […]
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The 2019 Reynolda Conference at Wake Forest University, Entanglements: A Conference on the Intersections of Poetry, Science, and Art, will bring together a diverse range of 10 leading poets, scientists, artists, and scholars from around the world whose work and/or teaching engages with transdisciplinary investigations into shared […]
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Majors, minors, and graduate students in the English department were recognized at the annual awards reception on April 24, 2019 in the Magnolia Room. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS 2018-2019 Robert N. Shorter Medieval Prize:Andrew Murphy Robert N. Shorter was the principal medievalist in the English department for […]
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George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo and recipient of the 2017 Man Booker Prize, will give a reading on Wake Forest University’s campus on April 10, 2019. His visit is made possible by a generous gift from the family of alumna Betty Jo […]
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The English Department’s Dean Family Speaker Series and the Wake Forest University Press present an evening with poet Paul Muldoon at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 28, in the Porter Byrum Welcome Center on Wake Forest’s campus. This event is free and open to the […]
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Paul Stasi, Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, will give a talk for the English graduate program on James Joyce’s Ulysses on Wednesday, March 20, in DeTamble Auditorium. This talk is free and open to the public. Stasi is the author […]
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