Faculty News Archive

From inside.wfu.edu: Dean Franco, Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University, has been awarded the new Winifred W. Palmer Professorship in Literature. Arnold Palmer’s trust funded the professorship in memory of Palmer’s late wife. Her passion for literature […]

As part of her work as an ACE Fellow and a board member for LEAD (Learning Everyday Accomplishing Dreams) Girls of NC, professor Keri Mathis and her Writing 111 students have been working with LEAD Girls of NC and students from the organization Wake Women […]

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing L. Lamar Wilson’s documentary short, The Changing Same, premieres Monday, July 22 at 10:30 p.m. The short will be shown on POV Shorts, part of the POV documentary series on PBS.  From American Documentary’s website amdoc.org: […]

Get to know our fall 2019 visiting writers with this summer reading list! All of these readings and talks are open to the campus community and the public. We will update this page and our events calendar as event details are […]

Susan Harlan, Associate Professor of English, was featured in The California Issue (Summer 2019) of Wake Forest Magazine. An excerpt follows. Read the full article on Wake Forest Magazine’s website. The Objects of Her Desires For Susan Harlan, author and associate professor of English, […]

Hometown: Houston, Texas Major/Minor: English and Communications Current Employment: Freelance Content Writer in London, England What role has the English major played in your career path? Before attending Wake Forest, I had never considered English as a viable major, but after my first English course […]

Five faculty in the English department were approved for promotions by the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees on Friday, April 26, 2019.  Sarah Hogan, who teaches English literature, was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor.  In the Creative Writing program, Joanna Ruocco was […]