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 […]
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Associate Teaching Professor of English Rian Bowie, Digital Humanities Research Designer and Part-Time Assistant Professor of English Carrie Johnston, Special Collections Librarian Megan Mulder, Director of Special Collections and Archives Tanya Zanish-Belcher, and Assistant Director of Academic Technology Brianna Healey recently produced a podcast episode for […]
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Professor Scott Klein is co-editor, with Michael Valdez Moses (Chapman University), of A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941, published by Oxford University Press in October 2021. From the publisher: In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of […]
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Hannah Harrison joined the Writing Program at Wake Forest this fall as an Assistant Teaching Professor after two years teaching WRI 111 Rhetoric of Food and Rhetoric of Athletics in a Visiting position. She completed her PhD in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of […]
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Kendra L. Andrews, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program, joined Wake Forest 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 earned her PhD in the Communication, Rhetoric, […]
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The second volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, co-edited by WFU Professor Claudia Kairoff and UNCG Professor Jennifer Keith, has been released in the US, marking the successful close of a complex seventeen-year project to assemble the […]
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We feel deeply the loss of Dr. Robert N. Shorter, professor emeritus of English, who died on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Professor Shorter was a beloved professor of medieval literature at Wake Forest for 41 years, from 1958 until 1999, and Chair of the […]
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The Department of English Spring 2021 newsletter, looking back at the achievements of our students and faculty over the 2020-2021 academic year, is now available online: Read it here. You will also find past issues of the newsletter in […]
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Lucy Alford specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry and poetics, as well as transnational and trans-historical poetries in English, French, German, and Arabic. She holds a PhD in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford […]
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On April 29, Associate Professor Judith Madera will be the invited keynote speaker for the English Department and the Study of World Literature at Appalachian State University in honor of Senior Capstone Day. Her talk is titled “Why Place Stories Matter: Worldmaking and Home.” The […]
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