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RPW Center announces 2024 Warren-Brooks Award winner 

Mar 24th, 2025

Nicholas Jenkins is the 2024 recipient of the Warren-Brooks Award for his book The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England, published by Harvard University Press....

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Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou to present Gender & Women's Studies Program's Gail Martin...

Feb 21st, 2025

On March 6,  Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou, Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Berea College and inaugural Director of Berea College’s bell...

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Award-winning poet and 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Willie Carver Jr. to re...

Feb 4th, 2025

On February 6 at 7 p.m., the WKU English Department and Gender and Women’s Studies program will host poet, advocate, and educator Willie Carver Jr., who will read from his...

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