Derek Lee is an Assistant Professor of English focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction. Before getting his PhD, he worked in science and science communications, including stints at Dartmouth Medical School, the Nature Publishing Group, and USAID. His lifelong interest in science—especially scientific anomalies—still informs his research, where he… Continue Reading: Meet Derek P. Lee, Assistant Professor, Literature
The new African American Studies Program at Wake Forest, which launches in Fall 2021, received an anonymous $1 million gift to establish the Dr. Dolly A. McPherson Fund for African American Studies in support of the program. The Fund will help support the overall development of African American Studies including… Continue Reading: New fund for African American Studies named for Dr. Dolly A. McPherson
Prof. Herman Rapaport’s new book, Derrida on Exile and the Nation: Reading Fantom of the Other will be available from Bloomsbury Press on December 10, 2020. More about the text can be found on Bloomsbury’s website. From the publisher: Providing crucial scholarship on Derrida’s first series of lectures from the Nationality and… Continue Reading: A new monograph by Prof. Herman Rapaport: Derrida on Exile and the Nation
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). More information about the book and how… Continue Reading: Prof. Jefferson Holdridge publishes new collection of poems about Venice
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 I thought it would be… Continue Reading: Meet English Major Heather McCauley ’21
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 and John W. and Anna… Continue Reading: Meet Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies
