Poet and essayist Lia Purpura will give a reading of her work at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, in Hanes Art Gallery, as part of the Dillon Johnston Writer Reading Series. A reception will follow. This free event is open to the campus community […]
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The first speaker for 2018’s Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series will be poet Jerome Rothenberg, who will give a reading of his work at 6 p.m. in the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery of Scales Fine Arts Center on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. A […]
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Former English Department Writer in Residence John McNally will return to Wake Forest University on November 16 to give a reading as part of the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series. The reading will take place at 6 p.m. in the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art […]
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The family of Betty Jo Beeson Fitzpatrick ’50 recently gave $10,000 to the Wake Forest University English Department in support of the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series and the department’s Creative Writing program. This generous gift honors Betty Jo […]
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Students and faculty in the English Department and Creative Writing Minor, please join us! Reavey will discuss the craft of writing poetry, literary nonfiction, and memoir. This event will take place on Thursday, September 21st at 2:30pm in Ammons Lounge (A107 Tribble Hall). Amanda Ngoho […]
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Adriana Kiczkowski, Associate Lecturer from UNED, Spain, will present a gender reading of TV’s Humans and the film Robot & Frank titled Women, Ageing and Care in a Robotic Era. Date: Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 4:30 p.m. Location: DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall A110 This lecture […]
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From riots spanning Baltimore, London, Paris, and Oakland, forms of protest have become increasingly common in the twenty-first century. How are we to understand the prevalence of riots today? How do riots today relate to those of the 1970s and, reaching further back, to the […]
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Claudia Kairoff, professor of English and recipient of the MacDonough Family Faculty Fellowship, will deliver the Hubert McNeill Poteat Lecture on “Raising Her Voice: A Critical Edition of The Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea.” The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 […]
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Donna F. Edwards was an English major at Wake Forest, and will be speaking in President Hatch’s Leadership Project series. This event is free and open to the public. The event will be in Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall on Thursday, March 23, at 6 […]
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The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program invites you to a day-long Chaucer workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 28th in Tribble Hall C1 10:00am-noon, and 2:00-4:00pm. The workshop will focus on Chaucer’s well-known tale of Patient Griselda, his “Clerk’s Tale,” and will include the Portrait of […]
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