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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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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