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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Professor Deborah Cohen is giving a public talk about the history of homosexuality and the family in modern Britain. The talk will take place on Wednesday, February 10 at 5 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium. The event is part of the 2015-16 History Department Lecture Series. It is co-sponsored […]
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Come socialize, play, and compete with Faculty. Trivia will take place at Shorty’s on Wednesday, November 18 from 7-9 p.m. Rules: No more than 6 on a team. Teams must include at least one professor and one student. Start recruiting! For more information on participating, contact […]
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Emma Skeels, an English major, will present on her research completed in London made possible through a Richter Scholarship. This presentation will take place in Tribble Hall, C216 on Monday, November 2, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. For additional information, contact english@wfu.edu.
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The Graduate Program in Englishpresents a talk by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Transnational Lines, or Poetry in the Era of Decolonization Since Chinua Achebe appropriated the phrase Things Fall Apart from W. B. Yeats, African literature has often been framed as a response to earlier British and […]
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Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program How great would it be to study the Middle Ages (literature, history, culture) in a revered and ancient medieval institution? How great would it be to research environmental issues (policy, history, politics) from the vantage point of Oxford University? […]
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