News Archives - Department of English

Department of English Newsletter: March 2025

April 2, 2025

Letter from the chair/Reading disciplines/Mann lecture/Department news/Spring colloquia/Summer 2024 internships/Alum check-in:Geiser/Alumni news/Send me your news// Letter from the Chair On a recent Friday night in Los Angeles, four CWRU English faculty read from their fiction and poetry for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs 2025 conference. Rumor has it that...

Department of English Newsletter: December 2024

April 2, 2025

Letter from the Chair/Holiday Party/Department News/Sadar Lecture/Intersections/Summer Internships/Colloquium/Alumni News/Send Me Your News// Ryan Pfeiffer delivers the MacIntyre Lecture on Friday, December 6th: "Edward Taylor’s Epideictic Imagination." Letter from the Chair One of my favorite descriptions of a university comes from the poet Adrienne Rich, who calls it “a place where people can find...

Current Work

February 24, 2025

James Newlin‘s article, “Signs and Semblances: The Problem of Likability in Some Recent Productions of Much Ado About Nothing,“ has been published in the open-access journal Humanities. The piece is a part of the special issue “Shakespearean Performance: Contemporary Approaches, Findings, and Practices,” edited by Cynthia Lewis.

The English Department & Writing Program are proud of the work we do with first-year students at CWRU … and it pays off

September 25, 2024

Yesterday’s Daily reported that the first-year experience at CWRU ranks in the top twenty nationwide (according to US News).

Department of English Newsletter: September 2024

September 17, 2024

Letter from the chair/Welcome back lunch/Department news/New faculty/Ada Limon/September colloquia/Journey to publication/Alumni news/Send me your news// Letter from the Chair It was the middle of a Friday afternoon in late August and the atmosphere was buzzy in Guilford House. Over a plate of chicken wings and sliders, Laura Sarafian, a first-year...

New Faculty in the 2024-2025 Academic Year

July 16, 2024

Please join the department in welcoming these new faculty members for the 2024-2025 academic year. Caren Beilin Assistant Professor Caren Beilin writes at an intersection of New Narrative, Feminism, and Narrative Medicine. She is the author of Revenge of the Scapegoat (Dorothy, 2022), winner of the Vermont Book Award for Fiction, Blackfishing...

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The English Department & Writing Program are proud of the work we do with first-year students at CWRU … and it pays off

New Faculty in the 2024-2025 Academic Year

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