Associate Professor Joanna Ruocco’s newest book is a Victorian historical romance, The Duke Undone, penned under the name Joanna Lowell and published by Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. About the novel Kirkus writes, “Lowell’s prose is vivid and evocative, […]
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Guy Witzel is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program. As a scholar, he concerns himself with the conversations within and between the environmental humanities and writing studies. He finds the renewed relevance of ecocomposition, with its commitments to place-based learning and community engagement, […]
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Derek Lee is an Assistant Professor of English focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction. Before getting his PhD, he worked in science and science communications, including stints at Dartmouth Medical School, the Nature Publishing Group, and USAID. His lifelong interest in science—especially scientific anomalies—still […]
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The new African American Studies Program at Wake Forest, which launches in Fall 2021, received an anonymous $1 million gift to establish the Dr. Dolly A. McPherson Fund for African American Studies in support of the program. The Fund will help support the overall development […]
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Prof. Herman Rapaport’s new book, Derrida on Exile and the Nation: Reading Fantom of the Other will be available from Bloomsbury Press on December 10, 2020. More about the text can be found on Bloomsbury’s website. From the publisher: Providing crucial scholarship on Derrida’s first […]
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Literature professor Jefferson Holdridge has published a new collection of poetry, The Wells of Venice (Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, November 2020). It is his fourth published volume of poetry, following Eruptions (2013) and Devil’s Den and Other Poems (2015), and The Sound Thereof (2017).
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A distinguished scholar and public intellectual, Corey D. B. Walker is the Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and is jointly appointed in the department of English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. He returns to Winston-Salem where he previously served as Dean of the College […]
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Literature professor Lucy Alford will give a virtual presentation on her 2020 book, Forms of Poetic Attention, for the Stanford Humanities Center on Friday, November 20, at 5 p.m. (2 p.m. PST). Lorenzo Bartolucci (Stanford, Comparative Literature) will provide a brief response, followed by questions and […]
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Alisa is joining the Writing Program at Wake as an Assistant Professor after recently completing her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Kansas. She’s excited to bring her interests in rhetorical genre studies and public writing to the first-year writing seminars and […]
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Matt Garite is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English, specializing in the study of 20th and 21st century American literature, with an emphasis on the literature of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture. Dr. Garite grew up on the south shore of Long Island reading comic […]
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