Professor Matthew Rubery of Queen Mary University of London will give a lecture titled “The Confessions of a Synesthetic Reader” for the campus community and the public on Monday, March 4. The talk will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, March 4 in DeTamble […]
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Join us for a reading by Danielle Dutton at 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 21 in the ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404). Danielle Dutton is the author of Attempts at a Life, SPRAWL (a finalist for the 2011 Believer Book Award), and Margaret the First, […]
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English literature professor Dean Franco will give a talk on his new book The Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 12, 2019, in the ZSR Library Auditorium. The Border and the Line will be available from Stanford University (opens in a new tab) […]
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This fall, nine students were inducted into Wake Forest University’s Sigma Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta (opens in a new tab), the international English honors society. Students honored with Sigma Tau Delta induction are junior or senior English or Writing majors/minors who are in the […]
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We’ve compiled an end-of-summer reading list featuring some of the exciting literary scholars and writers who are coming to Wake Forest this year. You can learn more about these speakers and other English department events on our events calendar (opens in a new tab). Fall 2018 Literary Events: […]
The Wake Forest University Creative Writing program’s Dillon Johnston Writer Reading Series presents an evening with poet Carmen Giménez Smith on Thursday, October 18, at 6:00 p.m. in the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery in Scales Fine Arts Center. The reading will be followed by a reception […]
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The Wake Forest University Creative Writing program’s Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series presents an evening with author John Crowley on Wednesday, September 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery in Scales Fine Arts Center. The reading will be followed by a […]
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Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen, will give a talk titled “The Afterlife of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” for the English department’s Dean Family Speaker Series October 23, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. in the ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404). A book signing and reception will […]
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Fifteen majors, minors, and graduate students in the English department were recognized at the annual awards reception on April 25, 2018 in the Magnolia Room. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS 2017-2018 Robert N. Shorter Medieval Prize:Ann Marie Noell Robert N. Shorter was the principal medievalist in the English department […]
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Assistant Professor of English Literature Sarah Hogan will deliver a lecture for the Wake Forest Humanities Institute (opens in a new tab) on Monday, April 16, titled “Early English Utopias and the Capitalist-Imperialist Imaginary.” Drawing upon research from her forthcoming book, Professor Hogan will discuss how utopian authors […]
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