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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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. […]
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