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May 2, 2025

Department of English Newsletter: March 2025

Department of English Newsletter: March 2025

April 30, 2025

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 130 guests arrived to hear their work, and the work of other Cleveland collaborators....

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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 2023

September 19, 2023

//Letter from the chair/Welcome back party/Bob Wallace book/Department news/Cleveland Humanities Collective/Alumni news/Conversation with Sangeeta Ray// Letter from the Chair When second-year English major Molly McLaughlin stepped to the front of the room at Waterloo Arts in Collinwood, she didn’t know she’d be reciting her villanelle to an audience that included Michelle...

Department of English Newsletter: June 2023

June 13, 2023

Letter from the Chair/Department News/1st Gertrude Mann Lecture/Career Path to the Q/Sigma Tau Delta/Catching up with Alums/Congrats to our Graduates// Letter from the Chair While the fall and winter invited us into Guilford’s parlor and Bellflower’s foyer, summer throws open the doors to the world again. The porch is our summer...

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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

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