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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Keri Epps is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program and an Academic and Community Engaged Faculty Fellow in the Pro Humanitate Institute. Since joining Wake Forest in Fall 2018, she has dedicated much of her teaching, research, and service to community writing. Serving […]
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Professor Gillian Overing has published two books this fall, American/Medieval Goes North: Earth and Water in Transit, co-edited with Ulrike Wiethaus, Wake Forest Department of Religion and American Ethnic Studies Program, and The Contemporary Medieval in Practice, […]
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Professor Meredith Farmer was recently featured on the podcast of C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists in a wonderful and ranging piece on the women whose work enabled, settled, and sustained the idea of “Herman Melville,” both in the popular imagination and in the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Lamar Wilson is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. This is his first year teaching at Wake Forest. Dr. Wilson comes to Wake Forest from the creative writing faculty of The University of Alabama after appointments at Davidson College and The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, […]
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On October 15, 2019, Wake Forest University students, faculty and staff are invited to meet L. Lamar Wilson, who joined the Wake Forest University Creative Writing faculty this year, as he shares his PBS film and discusses his poet-scholar worldview and his new work. Dr. […]
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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: […]
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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 […]
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