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Faculty News
- Professor Emerita Claudia Thomas Kairoff has passed awayThis article was originally posted by Wake Forest University April 8, 2025 The University recently learned that Professor Emerita Claudia Thomas Kairoff passed away on Friday, April 4. Claudia retired from Wake Forest in 2022 after 35 years of service as a professor of English. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, she […]
- Dr. Amy Catanzano’s New Book Published at University of Michigan PressWe are happy to share that Professor Amy Catanzano’s new book, The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics, is now available! The book is published in the Poets on Poetry Series at the University of Michigan Press. Congratulations, Dr. Catanzano! The Imaginary Present by award-winning poet and professor Amy Catanzano explores cutting-edge scientific […]
- Dr. Flowers’ A Sketch of Sunday Published in MoMA MagazineJoin us in congratulating Dr. Ebony Flowers on her publication in MoMA magazine. Her comic, titled A Sketch of Sunday, appeared in the magazine on December 3, 2024. Congratulations, Dr. Flowers! Ebony Flowers was born and raised in Maryland. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she wrote […]
- Study Abroad in London Summer 2025Join us in London this summer from May 27 to June 28 for Literature of the Witch, co-taught by Dr. Joanna Ruocco and Dr. Sarah Hogan! ENG 302 (D) / CRW 286 / WGS 377: This 3-credit study away summer course will introduce you to wide-ranging works of English literature-mostly by women writers–that portray the […]
- Eric G. Wilson “Point Blank” Film Screening & Book TalkOn Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at 6 pm in Scales 102, the Department of English will host a film screening and discussion in celebration of Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English Eric G. Wilson’s study of John Boorman’s Point Blank for the British Film Institute’s distinguished BFI Classics Series. A reception and book signing […]
Student News
- Our 2024 Doyle Fosso Scholarship RecipientsJoin us in congratulating Grace Ayzanoa, Hollis Comer, and Meg Campbell on their receipt of the Doyle Fosso Scholarship! These three talented and accomplished students are the inaugural recipients of the new annual award, which is established in memory of Professor Emeritus Doyle Fosso, a distinguished professor of English who taught at Wake Forest University […]
- Open for Submissions: 24-25 Academy of American Poets / Edwin G. Wilson Prize for Undergraduate PoetryThe Department of English invites students from every discipline to submit their original poetry to Wake Forest University’s Academy of American Poets / Edwin G. Wilson Prize. The Prize, which was inaugurated in spring 2023, is awarded each spring to an outstanding Wake Forest undergraduate poet. The Prize was established by an anonymous donor in […]
- Study Abroad in London Summer 2025Join us in London this summer from May 27 to June 28 for Literature of the Witch, co-taught by Dr. Joanna Ruocco and Dr. Sarah Hogan! ENG 302 (D) / CRW 286 / WGS 377: This 3-credit study away summer course will introduce you to wide-ranging works of English literature-mostly by women writers–that portray the […]
- Announcing the 22-23 D.A. Brown Essay Award WinnersEach year, English faculty nominate the top essays from their lower- and upper-level literature courses for the department’s D.A. Brown Essay Awards. This summer, three students were recognized for exemplary essays written in the 2022-2023 academic year. The 22-23 D.A. Brown Essay Award for Literary Scholarship: Ellie Grubbs ’23, for her ENG 339 essay “Race […]
- Class of 2023 contributes books to the Sigma Tau Delta shelf in Ammons LoungeThe 2023 seniors from Wake Forest’s Sigma Omega chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, will be the fifth class to add their favorite books to the organization’s permanent collection in Ammons Lounge in Tribble Hall. Each senior selected a book that they studied at Wake Forest that was personally significant to […]
Alumni News
- Wake Forest Alum Mackenzie Kozak to Publish Award-Winning Poetry CollectionCongratulations to Mackenzie Kozak on her debut collection, no swaddle, which has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize and will be published in April 2025. We look forward to hosting her for a reading in the near future. Mackenzie Kozak is a poet living in Asheville, NC. She graduated from Wake Forest in […]
- Meet Alum Davita DesRoches MDIV ’21Hometown: Wolfville, Nova Scotia Major/Minor/Graduation Year: BSc with Honours in Math & Statistics and English (Acadia University, ’16); MA in English (McGill University, ’18), MDIV (Wake Forest University, ’21) Current Employment: Alternative Media Specialist, Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success, Wake Forest University What role has the English major played in your career path? […]
- Meet English Alum Kathleen Rommel (MA ’12)Hometown: Fenwick Island, Delaware Degree: English Master’s Degree (20th Century American Lit) Current Employment: Director of Partnerships at Raising The Village, a nonprofit working in poverty alleviation in Uganda What role has the English major played in your career path? Working at a small poverty-focused nonprofit means you have to be willing to live outside […]
- English alum Kim Jones featured in Deacon SpotlightEnglish alum Kim Jones ’05, MA.Ed ’06, is featured in this month’s Deacon Spotlight. She speaks about how her love of literature and her passion for culturally relevant and responsive teaching practices shapes her work as an English teacher, equity advocate, and change leader in Chapel Hill, NC. Read more on the
- Meet Alum Will Perry ’04, MA.Ed. ’05
A note: Since sharing this with us, Mr. Perry has been appointed Chancellor of the Chancery Court for the 30th Judicial District of Tennessee. He’ll be a participant at our Pre-Law Conversation hosted by Sigma Tau Delta and the English Student Association on September 13 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Students can […] - Meet Alum Will Perry ’04, MA.Ed. ’05