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 Across the Curriculum Consultant. She… Continue Reading: Meet Assistant Teaching Professor of Writing Kendra Andrews
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 Exile and the Nation (Bloomsbury… Continue Reading: Prof. Herman Rapaport talk, “The Heimat Variations,” on March 31
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, explores performance, publishes translations, and… Continue Reading: Meet Laura Mullen, Kenan Chair of the Humanities, English & Creative Writing
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 The Fairie Queen) and taught at the University of… Continue Reading: Remembering Doyle Fosso, Professor Emeritus of English Literature
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 at UNC Greensboro on Saturday, April 23, and… Continue Reading: Prof. Laura Mullen to teach Master Class in Poetry at NC Writers’ Network’s spring conference
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 literature, demonstrating how nature is… Continue Reading: A new critical work from Prof. Jefferson Holdridge: “Stepping through Origins”
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 Dance (Ridgeway Press, 2010), Final… Continue Reading: Meet English Alum Saleem Peeradina, MA ’73
Associate Professor Joanna Ruocco’s latest Victorian romance novel, The Runaway Duchess, is now available from Berkley Books. Penned under the name Joanna Lowell, this novel resides in the same literary universe as her novel The Duke Undone but includes a new cast of characters. About the novel, Publishers Weekly writes,… Continue Reading: A new romance from Prof. Joanna Ruocco: The Runaway Duchess
Professor Eric G. Wilson’s new book, Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb, is now available in bookstores everywhere from Yale University Press. Bookmarks will host a book talk and signing on January 27 at 7 p.m. Registration and more information can be found at bookmarksnc.org/EricGWilson. Publisher’s description: An in-depth look… Continue Reading: Prof. Eric Wilson publishes a biography of Charles Lamb
I’m an Assistant Teaching Professor in Literature. My research and teaching focus on global Anglophone literatures, postcolonial studies, and narrative and novel theory. My earliest ambition was to write novels. Even as that ambition has dulled, I remain fascinated by novel form. I’m just as interested in how Anglophone writers… Continue Reading: Meet Siddharth Srikanth, Assistant Teaching Professor of Literature