Department Profiles Archive

Guy Witzel is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program. As a scholar, he concerns himself with the conversations within and between the environmental humanities and writing studies. He finds the renewed relevance of ecocomposition, with its commitments to place-based learning and community engagement, […]

Derek Lee is an Assistant Professor of English focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction. Before getting his PhD, he worked in science and science communications, including stints at Dartmouth Medical School, the Nature Publishing Group, and USAID. His lifelong interest in science—especially scientific anomalies—still […]

A distinguished scholar and public intellectual, Corey D. B. Walker is the Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and is jointly appointed in the department of English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. He returns to Winston-Salem where he previously served as Dean of the College […]

Alisa is joining the Writing Program at Wake as an Assistant Professor after recently completing her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Kansas. She’s excited to bring her interests in rhetorical genre studies and public writing to the first-year writing seminars and […]

Matt Garite is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English, specializing in the study of 20th and 21st century American literature, with an emphasis on the literature of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture. Dr. Garite grew up on the south shore of Long Island reading comic […]

Gale Sigal is Professor of English and Medieval Studies. Since joining Wake Forest in 1987, she has served as Chair of the English Department, Director of Graduate Studies and co-founder and co-director of the Medieval Studies Minor and the Interdisciplinary MA Certificate Program in Medieval […]