Congratulations to the recipients of the English Department’s 2020-2021 scholarships and awards! In the absence of our annual in-person awards reception, their professors have recorded brief videos about these students’ accomplishments. H. Broadus Jones Senior Award for Excellence in English Awarded to an outstanding senior […]
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The Winter 2021 issue of Three to Four Ounces, Wake Forest’s student literary magazine, is now available in digital form. The issue features work by Wake Forest students Kaylah Bozkurtian, Brianna Coppolino, Dianna LaTerra, Anna Lawrence, Marilla Morrison, Kathryn Paulsen, and contributing editors McKenzie Baker […]
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The 2021 seniors from Wake Forest’s Sigma Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, will be the third class to add beloved books to the organization’s permanent collection in Ammons Lounge in Tribble Hall. Each senior selected a book that they […]
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The English Student Association and Sigma Tau Delta invited English alumna Sarah Pirovitz Humphreville ’10 to speak with majors and minors about the world of professional editing on April 13. Humphreville is the trade and academic editor for public health, epidemiology, and science & tech […]
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Hometown: Garden City, New York Major/Minors: Studio Art major; Theatre, History, & Creative Writing minors WFU Highlights: During the spring semester of my sophomore year, I took CRW 384: Playwriting; we were only on-campus through March 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the […]
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Hometown: Hendersonville, North Carolina Major/Minors: English & German major, Creative Writing minor Highlights of my time at Wake: Being surrounded by a community of other language nerds, able to become the whole person I never was in high school. Going to basketball games, being named […]
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Hometown: Chandler, Arizona Majors: English and French Highlights of your time at Wake: Every second of it, from spontaneous road trips to Florida to working at the student-run coffee shop on campus to becoming ESA president to carrying around three Norton anthologies at once because […]
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Hometown: Boulder, Colorado Majors: English & Communication Highlights of your time at Wake: My favorite moments at Wake Forest have been the ones spent building relationships and memories that I’ll always cherish. I’ll never forget drinking coffee with friends in the Tribble courtyard and building […]
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Each year, English faculty submit the best essays from their lower-level and upper-level literature courses, and a faculty panel awards the writers of the top essay in each category the D.A. Brown Award for Excellence in Writing. The 2019-20 recipients of the D.A. Brown Award […]
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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 […]
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