Faculty News Archive

Professor Eric G. Wilson recently released a new book titled How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life. Published in November 2022 by Penguin Random House, How to Be Weird is a guidebook for beating the monotony of the everyday by purposefully […]

Eric Bontempo, Visiting Assistant Professor, Literature Eric Bontempo is a PhD Candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation, Reverent Romanticism: Anthologizing Romantic Poetry in Victorian Devotional Literature, examines how Romantic texts are appropriated and remediated in Victorian devotional poetry anthologies […]

The Wake Forest University Center for Energy, Environment & Sustainability profiled Prof. Meredith Farmer on its website this month. The profile describes how her scholarship and teaching bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities, “demonstrating how an interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies can […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]