Wake Forest University Department of English

Thursday, April 11, 7 pm in DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall, WFU Free and open to the public.   Dorianne Laux’s newest poetry collection, The Book of Men, was published by W.W. Norton in 2011. Her book Dark Charms was published by Red Dragonfly Press in 2010 and Superman: The Chapbook, also by Red Dragonfly Press, [...]

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A talk by Clare Lees.   WHERE: TRIBBLE A209 WHEN:  4 p.m.  Monday, March 25th Prof. Lees will discuss her role and that of King’s College in the Colm Cille Spiral of contemporary commissions in art and literature reinterpreting the 6th Century legacy of monastic learning inspired by Colm Cille, or St Columba, starting in Derry~Londonderry, then [...]

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A talk by Clare Lees.   WHERE: Tribble A202 WHEN:  5 p.m.  Wednesday, March 20th   This paper examines the ways in which temporalities and chronologies frame our understanding of both medieval and post-medieval literature, using three examples: the making of history in the tenth century; the invention of Anglo-Saxon history in contemporary British fiction; [...]

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A Talk by Michael Valdez Moses.  Thursday, March 28, 5:00 pm in C216 Tribble Hall.   Free and open to the public. Reception to follow in Tribble A107.  

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Wednesday, March 20: 7:00 pm, Andre Dubus III- Kulynych Auditorium at the Byrum Welcome Center, Wake Forest University Free and open to the public.  Booksigning to follow.  ANDRE DUBUS III – Fiction and Memoir  Andre Dubus III is the author of five books: The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times [...]

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Wake Forest University Department of English

New Issue of the Newsletter Our Winter 2013 issue of the English Department Newsletter is now available on the Newsletters page.

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Bestselling Novelist Reads Today September 7, 2012 in ZSR Library Auditorium (Rm 404), 2pm Gillain Flynn, author of NY Times bestselling novel Gone Girl, will read in the ZSR Library Auditorium today at 2:00pm  Gillian Flynn received her master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She then moved to New York and worked for 10 years at [...]

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Wake Forest University Department of English

Fall 2012 Eng 105 Course Descriptions Now Available The department’s Course Information and Descriptions pages now have a link for Eng 105 course descriptions for the Fall 2012 semester.

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Click the image to the right to download the newsletter in pdf Articles Include “African American Literature Scholar Presents Literary Legacies of Frederick Douglass” “Parchment and Medieval Literature: A Scholar Reveals Secrets Of Parchment” “Baseball As Metaphor” “The Plot Thickens”

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  Yasmin Bendaas, a Wake Forest junior won $2000 grant from the The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and members of its Campus Consortium group. She plans to research Algerian facial tattoo culture.  Read the complete WFU news release.

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