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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In Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben famously defines sacred life as a life that can be killed but not sacrificed. Insofar as the sacredness of life consists in being the originary form of the inclusion of bare life (or natural, biological […]
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Andrea Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English Emerita, Claude and Louise Rosenberg Jr. Fellow, and Former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She has published extensively on rhetorical theory, women in rhetoric, collaboration, cultures of writing, style, […]
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Documentary filmmaker Billy Shebar will discuss how being a philosophy major at Harvard and an English MA student at King’s College, London, has formed his filmmaking work for the BBC, Showtime, and other media outlets. This event will take place on October 25 at 4:30. […]
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The 73rd annual Southeastern Renaissance Conference is a two-day event bringing together approximately 40 scholars in English studies and other disciplines from the southeast and elsewhere. The meeting will be held Friday and Saturday, September 23-24, at the Old Salem Visitor Center (900 Old Salem […]
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The English Department invites you to an evening of Literary Trivia.Come socialize, play, and compete with faculty. Trivia will take place on Wednesday, February 24 from 7 – 9 p.m inShorty’s (Benson Center). Want to play? Ask a faculty member to join your team!For more […]
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Sarah McDermott will speak on “Recycled Possibilities and New Combinations: Book Structure from Medieval Europe to Contemporary Artist’s Books” on Monday, February 22 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Tribble Hall, C216. A reception follows in Ammons Lounge, A107. This event is free and open to the entire […]
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