Faculty News Archive

Former Wake Forest University writer-in-residence John McNally’s newest collection of short stories, The Fear of Everything, is now available from the University of Louisiana Press.  In her review of the collection, Caitlin Hicks of the New York Journal of Books writes: In this collection […]

This fall, the English department is pleased to welcome seven new faculty in the literature and writing programs.  Lucy M. Alford, Assistant Professor, Literature Before joining our department, Lucy was Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities Division and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows, and […]

Professors Jennifer Greiman and Claudia Kairoff were awarded Reynolds Research Leaves for academic year 2019-20. Below are excerpts from their reports about their achievements while on leave. Click here to read a letter from Professor Jeff Solomon about his work while […]

The Wake Forest University Department of English endorses the Z. Smith Reynolds Librarians’ Assembly statement on online proctoring services. Like the Library faculty, English Department faculty will not use online proctoring services, which compromise student privacy.  A statement from the Librarians’ Assembly, published July 23, […]

Hello, Department of English! I have missed you all—my colleagues, and our majors and minors—while I have been on research leave. I feel like I have been away for a very long time, and I was sorry to miss the last year of our seniors. […]

Associate Professor Jennifer Greiman is now Associate Editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Leviathan features a bounty of scholarly articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing of a critical, theoretical, cultural, or historical nature on the impressive body […]