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Remembering an English legend

Beulah Raynor (MA ’47), an assistant professor emerita of English who taught from 1946 until 1979 — the longest tenure of any female faculty member, died on Jan. 8 in Winston-Salem. She was 101. A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. […]


Thursdays at Byrum Hall

The Provost and the Undergraduate Admissions Office invite faculty and staff to Thursdays at Porter B. Byrum Hall (the Welcome and Admissions Center) on Nov. 17. A wine and cheese reception will run from 4-4:30 p.m., followed by a program from 4:30-5:15 p.m. that […]

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Overing to speak about Beowulf

Dr. Gillian Overing will discuss Beowulf in the ZSR Library’s Auditorium at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28. She’ll give a brief overview of the poem’s historical and cultural background and consider how the themes and questions raised by this ancient Germanic poem resonate […]


WFDD wins national award

WFDD won a second-place award from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) for an episode of Voices & Viewpoints that featured Wake Forest English lecturer Mary Martin Niepold, the founder of the Nyanya Project.


Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Irish poetry

St. Patrick’s Day is a time for celebrating all things Irish, but Wake Forest University Press — the premier publisher of Irish poetry in North America — celebrates Irish culture year-round. Now in its fourth decade, the Press publishes virtually all of Ireland’s foremost poets […]


January 2011 faculty milestones

20 Years Sheri Bridges, Associate Professor, Schools of Business Megan E. Mulder, Librarian, Special Collections, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Sharon Kay Woodard, Senior Lecturer, Health & Exercise Science


Klein publishes edition of novel

Scott Klein, professor and chair of English, has published an edition of Wyndham Lewis’s novel “Tarr,” with Oxford University Press, as part of the Oxford World Classics series. This is the first scholarly edition of the final 1928 text of Lewis’s novel.


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