As part of the Department of English’s commitment to express our solidarity with Black Lives Matter by doing more to center black life in our curriculum and scholarship, this month we will be sharing reading lists taken from some of our courses […]
Categories: Faculty News, Student News, Summer Reading
As part of the Department of English’s commitment to express our solidarity with Black Lives Matter by doing more to center black life in our curriculum and scholarship, this month we will be sharing reading lists taken from some of our […]
Categories: Faculty News, Student News, Summer Reading
June 5, 2020 The Wake Forest University English Department affirms its solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality and authoritarianism in Winston-Salem, across the United States, and around the world. As Associate Dean and Associate Professor of English Erica Still recently wrote to […]
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Zak Lancaster, Associate Professor of English, was selected by the URECA (Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities) Committee as the 2019 recipient of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentored Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities. The award honors faculty members who have distinguished themselves as […]
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Gale Sigal is Professor of English and Medieval Studies. Since joining Wake Forest in 1987, she has served as Chair of the English Department, Director of Graduate Studies and co-founder and co-director of the Medieval Studies Minor and the Interdisciplinary MA Certificate Program in Medieval […]
Categories: Department Profiles, Faculty News
Eric Ekstrand studied English at Wake Forest as an undergraduate and feels quite lucky to work alongside many of his former teachers, as well as all his colleagues and students, whom he admires so much. He joined the writing program at Wake Forest in 2012. […]
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The Wake Forest University Department of English mourns the loss of Robert (Bob) Lovett, professor emeritus of English, who died February 16, 2020, in Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Lovett spent his childhood in New York and Atlanta, Georgia, before attending Marist School, Oglethorpe University, and Emory […]
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Volume I: Early Manuscript Books, Eds. Jennifer Keith with Claudia Thomas Kairoff (pp. clxiv + 819) has been published. This is the first complete critical edition of Finch’s writings; Volume II will be printed […]
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Congratulations to Professor Fiander for winning Zone 3 Press’s 2019 Award for Literary Fiction. His award-winning story, “Five Variations on Parnell’s Blues,” was published by Zone 3 in their Fall 2019 issue. Zone 3 is a nationally distributed, non-profit literary journal published twice a year […]
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Writing professor Marianne Erhardt is one of 18 North Carolina artists who received the prestigious N.C. Arts Council Artist Fellowship this year. The 2019 Artist Fellowship Program recognizes literary artists in the categories of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting and play-writing, and in the musical […]
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