The Wake Forest Writing Program has published the first issue of Writing Moves, an online journal featuring “the interesting rhetorical moves of Wake Forest undergraduates.” The publication was edited, designed, and annotated by English major and Creative Writing minor Hannah Lafferrandre, with help from faculty mentors […]
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Writing has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. After four years at Middlebury College, where I majored in English, I taught English both in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and at a private school in rural Virginia. Those experiences taught me […]
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Assistant Professor of English Literature Sarah Hogan will deliver a lecture for the Wake Forest Humanities Institute on Monday, April 16, titled “Early English Utopias and the Capitalist-Imperialist Imaginary.” Drawing upon research from her forthcoming book, Professor Hogan will discuss how utopian authors […]
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The Wake Forest University English Department is pleased to announce that 13 English, Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Writing, and Journalism faculty have been awarded research and travel funds for the spring and summer of 2018. These faculty will conduct primary research and attend scholarly conferences in […]
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Professor Eric G. Wilson, Thomas E. Pritchard Professor of English and director of the Creative Writing program, released his first work of fiction, Polaris Ghost, on March 1. The book’s launch party will take place at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 18th, at […]
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Mary DeShazer, retired professor of English Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, received the Jon Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching at Founders’ Day Convocation on Feb. 15, 2018. This award “recognizes an experienced member of the faculty, distinguished as a teacher in the broadest […]
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Professor of English Literature Jefferson Holdridge received the URECA Center’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship at the Wake Forest University Founders’ Day Convocation on Feb. 15, 2018. The URECA Award honors faculty members who have distinguished themselves as excellent mentors of Wake Forest undergraduate scholars. […]
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Naima Coster, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing program, recently spoke to poet and essayist Carina del Valle Schorske in the Paris Review about her debut novel, Halsey Street. The piece is titled “Owning Brooklyn: An Interview with Naima Coster.” Read the full interview
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Professor Sarah Hogan is a scholar of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, in her fifth year of employment at Wake Forest University. She hails from the snowy Rust Belt region, having grown up just outside of Rochester, NY, before earning a BA and MA from […]
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Three English professors—Susan Harlan, Judith Madera, and Gillian Overing—have been given Archie award funding for their research projects in 2018. The Archie award provides support for primary research and research travel domestically and internationally in the Arts and Humanities. Archie funding is typically used to […]
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