Hometown: Fenwick Island, Delaware Degree: English Master’s Degree (20th Century American Lit) Current Employment: Director of Partnerships at Raising The Village, a nonprofit working in poverty alleviation in Uganda What role has the English major played in your career path? Working at a small poverty-focused […]
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Hometown: Charleston, SC Majors, minors, graduation year: English and Studio Art majors, Spanish minor Highlights of your time at Wake: Now that I am a senior there are too many to name: exhibiting my artwork in student shows, playing in frisbee tournaments with the club […]
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Laura Mullen is the W.R. Kenan Jr. Chair of Humanities in Literature and Creative Writing. A National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Fellow, she writes poetry and experimental prose, as well as hybrid texts playing with genre. She also works with video and sound, […]
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Hometown: Thomasville, North Carolina Major and minors: English Major with Minors in Secondary Education and Classical Studies Highlights of your time at Wake: Academically, my best memories center around the Writing Center and research that arose out of my time there. From scrabble nights with […]
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I’m an Assistant Teaching Professor in Literature. My research and teaching focus on global Anglophone literatures, postcolonial studies, and narrative and novel theory. My earliest ambition was to write novels. Even as that ambition has dulled, I remain fascinated by novel form. I’m just as […]
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Hometown: Hickory, NC Majors: Double major in English and Spanish Highlights of your time at Wake: Winning Hit the Bricks as a member of Running Club, writing articles for the Old Gold & Black, spending time with friends in the Campus Garden, […]
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Hannah Harrison joined the Writing Program at Wake Forest this fall as an Assistant Teaching Professor after two years teaching WRI 111 Rhetoric of Food and Rhetoric of Athletics in a Visiting position. She completed her PhD in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of […]
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Lucy Alford specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry and poetics, as well as transnational and trans-historical poetries in English, French, German, and Arabic. She holds a PhD in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford […]
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Hometown: Garden City, New York Major/Minors: Studio Art major; Theatre, History, & Creative Writing minors WFU Highlights: During the spring semester of my sophomore year, I took CRW 384: Playwriting; we were only on-campus through March 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the […]
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Hometown: Hobbs, New Mexico Majors and Graduation Year: English and Spanish, 2005 Current Employment: Director, Center for Self-Help and Dispute Resolution, Second Judicial District Court, Albuquerque, NM What role has the English major played in your career path? When I think of the ways my […]
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