Jessica Richard, Associate Professor of English literature and Chair of the Department of English, has a received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for The Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, a collaborative digital edition of the author’s letters shared […]
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Patricia Johansson, beloved Lecturer Emerita of English and Associate Dean of the College, passed away on April 7, 2022, at the age of 91. Professor Johansson joined the English faculty at Wake Forest in 1969 after receiving a BA from Winston-Salem State and a master’s […]
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Assistant Teaching Professor Meredith Farmer has coedited a collection of essays on Melville’s Captain Ahab along with Jonathan D. S. Schroeder (Brandeis University). The collection is titled Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn and is published by University of Minnesota Press. About Ahab […]
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Dr. Kendra L. Andrews joined the English Department as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program in fall 2021. She joined the WFU community from Fairfield University in Connecticut where she worked as a Professor of the Practice in Writing and as a Writing […]
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The Wake Forest University Departments of English and Philosophy present “The Heimat Variations,” a lecture by Reynolds Professor of English Herman Rapaport on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 5 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium (Tribble A110). Rapaport’s talk will address his last book, Derrida on […]
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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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Professor Emeritus of English Doyle Fosso passed away on February 9, 2022. A cherished colleague and popular teacher (especially with our better students) in our department for thirty years, Doyle earned his Ph.D. at Harvard (he wrote his dissertation on Spenser’s […]
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Laura Mullen, Kenan Professor of the Humanities in the English Department’s Creative Writing Program, will teach the Master Class in Poetry at the North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring 2022 Conference. The NCWN spring conference will take place virtually and in person […]
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Professor Jefferson Holdridge’s new book examines the role of the Irish landscape in literature. Stepping through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature, published in January 2022 by Syracuse University Press, “addresses the place of the aesthetics of nature, landscape, and family in Irish […]
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Hometown: Mumbai Degree: Master’s Degree in English Literature, 1973 Current Employment: I retired in 2012 as a Professor Emeritus of English at Siena Heights University. I am the author of First Offence (Newground, 1980), Group Portrait (OUP, 1992), Meditations on Desire (Ridgeway Press, 2003), Slow […]
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