Faculty News Archive

Jeff Solomon will give a lecture in DeTamble Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. on October 23 about his new book, So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein, which was released by the University of Minnesota Press in 2017. […]

Dean Franco, Professor of English and Director of the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute, recently spoke about the value of the humanities in the 21st century on “The Public Morality” on WSNC (90.5 FM). “The Public Morality,” hosted by Byron Williams, is a weekly broadcast […]

Professor Jenny Pyke gave a presentation entitled “‘Take Me with You’: Prince and the Musical Space of Female Sexual Desire” as part of a three-day conference dedicated to Prince entitled “Purple Reign: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Life and Legacy of Prince.” The conference took place in May 2017 […]

In April, Wake Forest University Press published Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry. This collection was co-edited by professor Jefferson Holdridge and Brian Ó Conchubhair. It includes an article by Holdridge entitled “The Autonomous Tear: Caitríona O’Reilly’s Geis and Conor O’Callaghan’s The Sun King” and an article entitled “Ireland’s Afterlives in Global Anglophone Poetry” written by […]

Professor Jefferson Holdridge‘s poetry collection entitled The Sound Thereof was published in March by Graft Poetry. This collection follows Holdridge’s Eruptions published in 2013. To learn more about the collection, see its listing on Graft Poetry’s website.

During the winter break Jon Smart, assistant teaching professor in the Writing Program, traveled to Qingdao, China, to teach an academic writing course to eleven Chinese high school students who plan to study in the United States upon graduation. See the full story here.

Professor Jennifer Greiman’s journal article “Melville in the Dark Ages of Democracy” was recently published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The article can be found here.

English professor Jessica Richard finds paper conferences are a good way to measure her students understanding of the books they read. English professor Jessica Richard’s students turn a paper in and get a grade the same day. Right after they read it to her in […]