Apr 21st, 2022

Olivia Alsup is a senior from Franklin, Kentucky, earning a degree in English. While she has always been passionate about English, she initially had a different career in mind when she graduated from high school.

Apr 21st, 2022

Apr 19th, 2022

In coordination with Dr. Eric Reed, the Department of English held a retirement celebration for Dr. Ted Hovet on Friday, April 15. Dr. Hovet presented his favorite film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and narrated parts of it with research and interesting fa

Apr 18th, 2022

On March 10, St. Louis, Miss., junior Literature major Delaney O’Neill organized a Women’s History Month discussion panel alongside her sorority, Alpha Xi Delta. The discussion featured many of WKU’s women professors, including Dr. Angela Jones, Pr

Apr 18th, 2022

The 2022 Goldenrod Poetry Festival will be held on April 28 at 7 PM in Cherry Hall 125. The annual event is sponsored by the WKU English Club. The Festival will feature a reading by Whitnee Thorp, who has published many works of poetry including Pasque P

Apr 13th, 2022

The Potter College of Arts and Letters (PCAL) extended its spirit beyond WKU’s campus to Fountain Square Park in downtown Bowling Green for the first annual Spring Forward Festival on Saturday, April 9. The English Department was one of the many indivi

Apr 11th, 2022

WKU junior Joseph Shoulders was awarded the Stemmler/Dennis LGBT Award at the 2022 Sigma Tau Delta Convention in Atlanta. OTher WKU English majors who presented at the convention were Valerie Feldker, Eli Edens, Lizzy Roth, Kayla Spears, and Faith Yonts.

Apr 7th, 2022

The WKU Department of English held an award ceremony announcing the finalists and winners of the fifth annual High School Writing Contest on Saturday, March 26. Around 80 guests gathered in Cherry Hall to honor the high school students for their outstandi

Apr 5th, 2022

Last Thursday evening, the WKU Creative Writing program hosted the second guest in the Creative Writing Reading Series, Nick Flynn. Flynn is a memoirist, poet, and professor in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at the University of Houston. His first me

Apr 4th, 2022

This Wednesday, the WKU Gender & Women’s Studies program presented the film The Glorias alongside the WKU English and history departments. The event was a part of the GWS Gender Images Film Series, and was followed by a discussion led by history profes