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Calling all lovers of texts and tech

Calling all lovers of texts and tech: WED, Nov. 15, 3:30 pm (csLab, SC 1315)

Lynn Holmgren ’05 Comes to Campus

Alumna Lynn Holmgren ’05 was a guest of the CW Program at its annual Majors Dinner this December where she talked with students majoring in…

Elspeth Lodge

Journalist | Toronto, Ontario

Professor Sue Standing, Director of the Creative Writing program, follows the traces of a medieval sculptor

No one knows who the 12th-century sculptor called the Master of Cabestany really was

Adara Meyers ’08

My time as an English major at Wheaton was — and continues to be — invaluable to my development as an artist and critical thinker.

Prof. Samuel Chase Coale on Nathaniel Hawthorne

Read about Prof. Coale’s new book on the author of The Scarlet Letter

Mark Baumer ’07

For the past two years I’ve been writing fiction in Brown University’s MFA Literary Arts program.

Prof. Michael Drout, English Dept. Chair, takes on J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English

My current research focuses on tradition and influence in literary texts, particularly those from the Anglo-Saxon period.

Prof. Shawn Christian re-examines the work and life of James Baldwin

I first read Baldwin seriously during my undergraduate years … Another Country just left me overwhelmed with its honesty and vision of a complex, interracial…

Prof. Claire Buck’s work on women and poetry of the First World War

Learn about Professor Claire Buck’s book on British First World War literature.

Jessica Corn ’06

What I enjoyed most about Wheaton was the support and freedom I was given.