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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I was born in White Plains, NY and grew up in Weston CT, then studied in California at SFSU. After living and studying in Ireland for 12 years for an MA and PhD at University College Dublin, I was fortunate to be hired here at […]
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Professor Susan Harlan won first prize for the 2017 Mark Twain House & Museum Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest for her series of literary humor pieces entitled “Great House Therapy,” currently available on The Toast. Sponsored by the Mark Twain House and Museum, the annual […]
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Writing professor Eric Ekstrand has been awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship by the George Kaiser Family Foundation. The Foundation awards fellowships to between 20 and 30 national and Tulsa-based visual artists and writers each year, offering them “creative freedom to pursue their craft and […]
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In late September, Professor of Literature Sarah Hogan gave an invited lecture at the Matters of Invention symposium, sponsored by the University of Cyprus. This small, two-day conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, brought together international scholars devoted to the study of utopian literature and early modernity. Her talk, […]
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The English Department is pleased to announce that Joanna Ruocco will spend winter 2018 at Yaddo, one of the nation’s oldest and most established artist colonies. Ruocco was awarded a Yaddo residency fellowship to work on a new novel-in-progress. According to the Yaddo website, […]
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Along with other Wake Forest faculty and researchers, professors Phoebe Zerwick and Zak Lancaster will give presentations at the first ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, held at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. October 13-15. Presented by […]
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Professor Judith Madera has been invited to speak at the Black Geographies: Insurgent Knowledge, Spatial Poetics, and the Politics of Blackness 2017 Symposium in October at the University of California, Berkeley. The event brings together upcoming and leading scholars in Black Geographies, and is sponsored […]
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The Department of English is pleased to announce that Professor Amy Catanzano will be an Artist-in-Residence for one week at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in the spring of 2018. In preparation for the visit, she has been invited to the […]
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