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The faculty in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences is made up of distinguished, award-winning poets and fiction and non-fiction writers and scholars. Some of the prizes the faculty holds include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Academy of American Poets Prize. The faculty has expertise in seven periods: Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century literature, modern literature and American literature. In addition to the resident faculty, a generous bequest brings to campus annually one or more distinguished scholars or writers. The appointment as Visiting Hurst Professor has been held by such distinguished writers and critics as Maxine Kumin, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Irving Howe, Robert Pinsky, Marilynne Robinson, W.S. Merwin, Angela Carter, Derek Walcott, Robert Coover, Carol Muske, Joy Williams, Thomas Laqueur, Fanny Howe, Thom Gunn, Christine Froula and Salman Rushdie.
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Irish poet and novelist Ciaran Carson to read from work April 14
April 1,
2008 -- Irish poet and novelist Ciaran Carson will read from his work at 8 p.m. Monday, April 14, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. Born in Belfast in 1948, Carson is the author of nine collections of poems, including The Irish for No (1987) and Breaking News (2003), as well as four prose works, including the novel Shamrock Tea (2001), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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The Book for My Brother
Poets Tomaž Šalamun and Brian Henry to read from work April 3
March 27,
2008 -- Renowned Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun will join award-winning American poet Brian Henry for a reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3. Šalamun has published more than 30 books of poetry, including nine collections in English. Henry is the author of five collections, most recently The Stripping Point and In the Unlikely Event of a Water.
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Poetic justice
Poet Mary Jo Bang wins National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry
March 17,
2008 -- Poet Mary Jo Bang, professor of English and director of The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
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Bob Wiltenburg
Dean of University College in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: adult education, continuing education, liberal arts, poets, Ben Jonson, English composition, John Milton, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4806
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rewilten@artsci.wustl.edu
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David A. Lawton
Professor and Chair of English in Arts & Sciences
David Lawton has published five books and many articles in English literary and cultural studies and in medieval studies. He is currently preparing editions of Chaucer's poetry and prose, and completing a book on voice and space in medieval literature. He is founding co-editor of a major journal, ...
Expertise: Medieval literatures, Medieval culture, Chaucer, literary history, literary theory, poetics, The Bible, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5114
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dalawton@wustl.edu
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Joseph Loewenstein
Professor of English in Arts & Sciences
Joseph Loewenstein's recent books — "The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright" (2002) and "Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship" (2002) — are studies of Early Modern intellectual property, the prehistory of modern copyright, but he is also extremely interested in prosody and poetics. ...
Expertise: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Jonson, Renaissance poetry and drama, poetics, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4404
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jfloewen@wustl.edu
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Gerald L. Early
Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters
Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ...
Expertise: American literature, African-American culture 1940-1960, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz music, prizefighting, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5576
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glearly@wustl.edu
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Wayne Fields
Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Chair in English
Fields is a nationally known expert on American literature, non-fiction prose, rhetoric and American political argument. His book, "Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence" (1996) examines the use of rhetoric in presidential speeches, from declarations of candidacy to nomination acceptances, ...
Expertise: American literature, American political argument, rhetoric, presidential speechmaking non-fiction prose, rhetoric, Mark Twain, Mississippi River
Direct contact: (314) 935-5216
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wdfields@artsci.wustl.edu
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Mary Jo Bang Examines Grief's Poetic Form, the Elegy
PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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April 11,
2008 -- In Thursday night's installment of its Poetry Series, WUSTL writer Mary Jo Bang examines grief's poetic form, the elegy.
She is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at WUSTL. Her fifth book, "Elegy," which won of the National Book Critics Circle Award, examines the pain and grief following the death of her son. She shares two poems from the collection.
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Analysis: Debate Unlikely to Change Race
Associated Press
and 66 others
Feb. 27,
2008 -- WUSTL's Wayne Fields comments on final pitches by Democratic presidential candidates as they head into the last weeks of primary elections.
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Building a Spenser collection for the ages
Los Angeles Times
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Jan. 28,
2008 -- Joseph Loewenstein, a Renaissance literature expert at WUSTL, is leading a team of graduate and undergraduate students to compile, edit, annotate and digitize Spenser's complete oeuvre.
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Analysis: Bush recasts war rationale
Associated Press
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Sept. 17,
2007 -- WUSTL English professor Wayne Fields, who is an expert on presidential rhetoric, comments on President Bush's speech on Iraq.
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A buzzword from the presidential campaign's action figures takes off
Associated Press
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Feb. 21,
2007 -- WUSTL English and American Culture Studies professor Wayne Fields, who is an expert in political rhetoric, comments on the new buzzword in the presidential campaign -- transformational leadership.
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